Native code has GC-heap pointers in it so it must be scanned. But on
unix port memory for native functions is mmap'd, and so it must have
explicit code to scan it for root pointers.
This patch consolidates all global variables in py/ core into one place,
in a global structure. Root pointers are all located together to make
GC tracing easier and more efficient.
gc.enable/disable are now the same as CPython: they just control whether
automatic garbage collection is enabled or not. If disabled, you can
still allocate heap memory, and initiate a manual collection.
As I suspected for a long time, for x86, register helper doesn't really make
any difference - there's simply not enough register to keep anything in
them for any prolonged time. Anything gets pushed on stack anyway. So, on
x86, uPy passed all tests even with empty reg helper. So, this setjmp
implementation goes as "untested".
Blanket wide to all .c and .h files. Some files originating from ST are
difficult to deal with (license wise) so it was left out of those.
Also merged modpyb.h, modos.h, modstm.h and modtime.h in stmhal/.
Damien George
Paul Sokolovsky
stijn
Antonin ENFRUN
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