[Numpy-discussion] C API

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Charles R Harris 
> <charlesr.harris@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.harris@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Travis E. Oliphant
>     <oliphant@enthought.com <mailto:oliphant@enthought.com>> wrote:
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>         Charles R Harris wrote:
>         > All,
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>         > I added a function to array_api_order.txt and apparently
>         this changed
>         > the order of the pointers in the API, which caused ctypes to
>         segfault
>         > until I removed the build directory and did a complete
>         rebuild. It
>         > seems to me that if we really want to make adding these API
>         functions
>         > safe, then we should only have one list instead of the
>         current two.
>         > This looks to require some mods to the build system. What do
>         folks think?
>         Yes, or a simple solution is to only append to one of the
>         lists.   At
>         the very least,  we should mark the array_api_order as not
>         appendable.
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>     That doesn't work unless I change the tag from OBJECT_API to
>     MULTIARRAY_API. Do these tags really matter? Maybe we should just
>     replace them with API and merge this lists. At the beginning of
>     1.2, of course.
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> This doesn't look to hard to do. How about a unified NUMPY_API list?
That's fine with me.  I can't remember why there were 2 separate lists.

-Travis