[Bug #780231] One of the changes described in the 2.3 "What's New" document

akuchling · akuchling · commit 77ad8292614d · 2003-08-29T17:49:26.000Z
actually occurred in 2.2.  Move the description to whatsnew22.tex.

[Bugfix candidate -- I'll backport to 2.3 (another 2.2 bugfix seems unlikely)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
@@ -1226,6 +1226,33 @@ \section{Interpreter Changes and Fixes}
   \cfunction{PyThreadState_Next()} allow looping over all the thread
   states for a given interpreter.  (Contributed by David Beazley.)
 
+\item The C-level interface to the garbage collector has been changed
+to make it easier to write extension types that support garbage
+collection and to debug misuses of the functions.
+Various functions have slightly different semantics, so a bunch of
+functions had to be renamed.  Extensions that use the old API will
+still compile but will \emph{not} participate in garbage collection,
+so updating them for 2.2 should be considered fairly high priority.
+
+To upgrade an extension module to the new API, perform the following
+steps:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item Rename \cfunction{Py_TPFLAGS_GC} to \cfunction{PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC}.
+
+\item Use \cfunction{PyObject_GC_New} or \cfunction{PyObject_GC_NewVar} to
+allocate objects, and \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Del} to deallocate them.
+
+\item Rename \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Init} to \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Track} and
+\cfunction{PyObject_GC_Fini} to \cfunction{PyObject_GC_UnTrack}.
+
+\item Remove \cfunction{PyGC_HEAD_SIZE} from object size calculations.
+
+\item Remove calls to \cfunction{PyObject_AS_GC} and \cfunction{PyObject_FROM_GC}.
+
+\end{itemize}
+
   \item A new \samp{et} format sequence was added to
   \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple}; \samp{et} takes both a parameter and
   an encoding name, and converts the parameter to the given encoding
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -2136,33 +2136,6 @@ \section{Build and C API Changes}
 
 \begin{itemize}
 
-\item The C-level interface to the garbage collector has been changed
-to make it easier to write extension types that support garbage
-collection and to debug misuses of the functions.
-Various functions have slightly different semantics, so a bunch of
-functions had to be renamed.  Extensions that use the old API will
-still compile but will \emph{not} participate in garbage collection,
-so updating them for 2.3 should be considered fairly high priority.
-
-To upgrade an extension module to the new API, perform the following
-steps:
-
-\begin{itemize}
-
-\item Rename \cfunction{Py_TPFLAGS_GC} to \cfunction{PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC}.
-
-\item Use \cfunction{PyObject_GC_New} or \cfunction{PyObject_GC_NewVar} to
-allocate objects, and \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Del} to deallocate them.
-
-\item Rename \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Init} to \cfunction{PyObject_GC_Track} and
-\cfunction{PyObject_GC_Fini} to \cfunction{PyObject_GC_UnTrack}.
-
-\item Remove \cfunction{PyGC_HEAD_SIZE} from object size calculations.
-
-\item Remove calls to \cfunction{PyObject_AS_GC} and \cfunction{PyObject_FROM_GC}.
-
-\end{itemize}
-
 \item The cycle detection implementation used by the garbage collection
 has proven to be stable, so it's now been made mandatory.  You can no
 longer compile Python without it, and the
