Do you know C macros? Two implementations is switched by USE_SEMAPHORES. #ifdef USE_SEMAPHORES ... void PyThread_free_lock(PyThread_type_lock lock) ... #else /* USE_SEMAPHORES */ ... void PyThread_free_lock(PyThread_type_lock lock) ... #endif /* USE_SEMAPHORES */
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:58 PM Windson Yang <wiwind...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I try to understand the code about the thread. I found > the thread_pthread.h file has some duplicate functions. Like > `PyThread_free_lock`, `PyThread_release_lock`, > `PyThread_acquire_lock_timed`. IIUC, C doesn't support function overload. > So why we have functions with the same name and args? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
