In the section on the "Very High Level Layer", address concerns brought up

freddrake · freddrake · commit 510d08bfe4a2 · 2000-08-14T02:50:21.000Z
by Edward K. Ream <edream@users.sourceforge.net> about FILE* values and incompatible C libraries in dynamically linked extensions. It is not clear (to me) how realistic the issue is, but it is better documented than not. This closes SourceForge bug #111520.
diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex
@@ -597,6 +597,15 @@ \chapter{The Very High Level Layer \label{veryhigh}}
 \constant{Py_file_input}, and \constant{Py_single_input}.  These are
 described following the functions which accept them as parameters.
 
+Note also that several of these functions take \ctype{FILE*}
+parameters.  On particular issue which needs to be handled carefully
+is that the \ctype{FILE} structure for different C libraries can be
+different and incompatible.  Under Windows (at least), it is possible
+for dynamically linked extensions to actually use different libraries,
+so care should be taken that \ctype{FILE*} parameters are only passed
+to these functions if it is certain that they were created by the same
+library that the Python runtime is using.
+
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{int}{PyRun_AnyFile}{FILE *fp, char *filename}
   If \var{fp} refers to a file associated with an interactive device
   (console or terminal input or \UNIX{} pseudo-terminal), return the
