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@vstinner vstinner commented Apr 8, 2021

Add Doc/using/configure.rst documentation to document configure,
preprocessor, compiler and linker options.

https://bugs.python.org/issue43774

Add Doc/using/configure.rst documentation to document configure,
preprocessor, compiler and linker options.

Add a new section about the "Python debug build".
Complete the doc; fix typos.
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vstinner commented Apr 8, 2021

Hum, for the PGO/LTO build, I may document that clang uses a different linker.

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vstinner commented Apr 8, 2021

The PYMALLOC_DEBUG macro is still implied by Py_DEBUG and documented in Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt, but it is no longer used in Objects/obmalloc.c. It should be simply removed.

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vstinner commented Apr 8, 2021

By the way, I'm not sure if anyone uses the __ltrace__ feature of ceval.c for debugging purpose.

@vstinner vstinner merged commit a41782c into python:master Apr 8, 2021
@vstinner vstinner deleted the configure_doc branch April 8, 2021 20:32
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