Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r85992:7d9e19e2e836 Date: 2016-08-02 18:15 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/7d9e19e2e836/
Log: Document branch diff --git a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst --- a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst @@ -109,3 +109,11 @@ .. branch: jitlog-exact-source-lines Log exact line positions in debug merge points. + +.. branch: null_byte_after_str + +Allocate all RPython strings with one extra byte, normally unused. +It is used to hold a final zero in case we need some ``char *`` +representation of the string, together with checks like ``not +can_move()`` or object pinning. Main new thing that this allows: +``ffi.from_buffer(string)``. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
