PyHeapTypeObject

[Brendan Miller]

What's the point of PyHeapTypeObject in Include/object.h? Why does the
layout of object types need to be different on the heap vs statically
allocated?

Thanks,
Brendan

 

[Aaron Brady]

What's the point of PyHeapTypeObject in Include/object.h? Why does the
layout of object types need to be different on the heap vs statically
allocated?

Thanks,
Brendan

Does it need to be garbage collected, finalized, and deallocated?
E.g. the string in tp_name.

I understand that the 'tp_dict' member is always dynamic though anyway.