[Numpy-discussion] C API

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Travis E. Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
wrote:

> Charles R Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Charles R Harris
> > <charlesr.harris@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.harris@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Travis E. Oliphant
> >     <oliphant@enthought.com <mailto:oliphant@enthought.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Charles R Harris wrote:
> >         > All,
> >         >
> >         > 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.
> >
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
>

OK. Another question, why do __ufunc_api.h and __multiarray_api.h have
double underscores prefixes?

Chuck
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