Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r3180:c25914172239 Date: 2019-01-08 09:21 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/c25914172239/
Log: Implement a limited form of from_buffer-release() on pypy diff --git a/doc/source/ref.rst b/doc/source/ref.rst --- a/doc/source/ref.rst +++ b/doc/source/ref.rst @@ -629,7 +629,9 @@ * on CPython, ``ffi.from_buffer(buf)`` locks the buffer, so ``ffi.release()`` can be used to unlock it at a known time. On PyPy, there is no locking - (so far) so this has no effect. + (so far); the effect of ``ffi.release()`` is limited to removing the link, + allowing the original buffer object to be garbage-collected even if the + cdata object stays alive. * on CPython this method has no effect (so far) on objects returned by ``ffi.new()``, because the memory is allocated inline with the cdata object _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
