On 19/11/2018 15:08, Victor Stinner wrote:
...
For me, the limited API should be functions available on all Python
implementations. Does it make sense to provide PyFloat_Pack4() in
..., Jython, ... ? Or is it something more
specific to CPython? I don't know the answer.
I'd say it's a CPython thing. It is helpful to copy a lot of things from
the reference implementation, but generally the lexical conventions of
the C-API would seem ludicrous in Java, where scope is already provided
by a class. And then there's the impossibility of a C-like pointer to
byte. Names related to C-API have mnemonic value, though, in
translation. Maybe "static void PyFloat.pack4(double, ByteBuffer,
boolean)" would do the trick.
It makes sense for JyNI to supply it by the exact C API name, and all
other API that C extensions are likely to use.
Jeff Allen
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