[pypy-dev] What is RuntimeTypeInfo?

2017-03-14 Thread John Zhang
Hi all, Can anyone does the favour for me by explaining the story of RuntimeTypeInfo in RPython? I couldn’t quite understand the description on the online documentation (http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtyper.html#opaque-types). From looking at the source code, and inspecting the generat

Re: [pypy-dev] What is RuntimeTypeInfo?

2017-03-14 Thread William ML Leslie
On 14 March 2017 at 11:17, John Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > Can anyone does the favour for me by explaining the story of RuntimeTypeInfo > in RPython? Hi John! The RTTI are a hook that the backend can implement, there is a fair bit of flexibility in what values they can take. The hooks in the C ba

[pypy-dev] Freeze of pypy2 and pypy3 for upcoming release

2017-03-14 Thread Matti Picus
I am starting to prep a simultaneous release of pypy2 (default) and pypy3 (py3.5), which will be known as PyPy 5.7.0. We debated a bit whether to release them both with the same version number, while it may be confusing for some bug reports I think it makes more sen