Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r1443:c6b154ad47ea Date: 2013-12-08 12:28 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/c6b154ad47ea/
Log: Simplify a bit this paragraph. diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1272,13 +1272,10 @@ the list of cdata objects made by ``new_handle()`` the one which has got the same ``void *`` value; and then it fetches in that cdata object the corresponding Python object. The cdata object keeps the Python object -alive, but if the cdata object *itself* is not alive any more, then it -will crash! (Obviously, the real -implementation is more efficient than suggested here.) In other words, -the result of ``new_handle()`` has *ownership* (similarly to -``ffi.new()`` or ``ffi.gc()``) in the sense that the association ``void -* -> python_object`` is only valid as long as *this* exact cdata -returned by ``new_handle()`` is alive. +alive, similar to how ``ffi.new()`` returns a cdata object that keeps a +piece of memory alive. If the cdata object *itself* is not alive any +more, then the association ``void * -> python_object`` is dead and +``from_handle()`` will crash. .. "versionadded:: 0.7" --- inlined in the previous paragraph _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
