dirs: document Py_SIZE weirdness

Assigning to what looks like a function is clown shoes. Document that
it is a macro referring to a struct member.

mercurial/dirs.c

@@ -1,313 +1,315
 /*
  dirs.c - dynamic directory diddling for dirstates
 
  Copyright 2013 Facebook
 
  This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
  the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 */
 
 #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
 #include <Python.h>
 #include "util.h"
 
 #ifdef IS_PY3K
 #define PYLONG_VALUE(o) ((PyLongObject *)o)->ob_digit[1]
 #else
 #define PYLONG_VALUE(o) PyInt_AS_LONG(o)
 #endif
 
 /*
  * This is a multiset of directory names, built from the files that
  * appear in a dirstate or manifest.
  *
  * A few implementation notes:
  *
  * We modify Python integers for refcounting, but those integers are
  * never visible to Python code.
  *
  * We mutate strings in-place, but leave them immutable once they can
  * be seen by Python code.
  */
 typedef struct {
 	PyObject_HEAD
 	PyObject *dict;
 } dirsObject;
 
 static inline Py_ssize_t _finddir(const char *path, Py_ssize_t pos)
 {
 	while (pos != -1) {
 		if (path[pos] == '/')
 			break;
 		pos -= 1;
 	}
 
 	return pos;
 }
 
 static int _addpath(PyObject *dirs, PyObject *path)
 {
 	const char *cpath = PyBytes_AS_STRING(path);
 	Py_ssize_t pos = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(path);
 	PyObject *key = NULL;
 	int ret = -1;
 
 	/* This loop is super critical for performance. That's why we inline
 	* access to Python structs instead of going through a supported API.
 	* The implementation, therefore, is heavily dependent on CPython
 	* implementation details. We also commit violations of the Python
 	* "protocol" such as mutating immutable objects. But since we only
 	* mutate objects created in this function or in other well-defined
 	* locations, the references are known so these violations should go
 	* unnoticed. The code for adjusting the length of a PyBytesObject is
 	* essentially a minimal version of _PyBytes_Resize. */
 	while ((pos = _finddir(cpath, pos - 1)) != -1) {
 		PyObject *val;
 
 		/* It's likely that every prefix already has an entry
 		   in our dict. Try to avoid allocating and
 		   deallocating a string for each prefix we check. */
 		if (key != NULL)
 			((PyBytesObject *)key)->ob_shash = -1;
 		else {
 			/* Force Python to not reuse a small shared string. */
 			key = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(cpath,
 							 pos < 2 ? 2 : pos);
 			if (key == NULL)
 				goto bail;
 		}
+		/* Py_SIZE(o) refers to the ob_size member of the struct. Yes,
+		* assigning to what looks like a function seems wrong. */
 		Py_SIZE(key) = pos;
 		((PyBytesObject *)key)->ob_sval[pos] = '\0';
 
 		val = PyDict_GetItem(dirs, key);
 		if (val != NULL) {
 			PYLONG_VALUE(val) += 1;
 			break;
 		}
 
 		/* Force Python to not reuse a small shared int. */
 #ifdef IS_PY3K
 		val = PyLong_FromLong(0x1eadbeef);
 #else
 		val = PyInt_FromLong(0x1eadbeef);
 #endif
 
 		if (val == NULL)
 			goto bail;
 
 		PYLONG_VALUE(val) = 1;
 		ret = PyDict_SetItem(dirs, key, val);
 		Py_DECREF(val);
 		if (ret == -1)
 			goto bail;
 		Py_CLEAR(key);
 	}
 	ret = 0;
 
 bail:
 	Py_XDECREF(key);
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static int _delpath(PyObject *dirs, PyObject *path)
 {
 	char *cpath = PyBytes_AS_STRING(path);
 	Py_ssize_t pos = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(path);
 	PyObject *key = NULL;
 	int ret = -1;
 
 	while ((pos = _finddir(cpath, pos - 1)) != -1) {
 		PyObject *val;
 
 		key = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(cpath, pos);
 
 		if (key == NULL)
 			goto bail;
 
 		val = PyDict_GetItem(dirs, key);
 		if (val == NULL) {
 			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
 					"expected a value, found none");
 			goto bail;
 		}
 
 		if (--PYLONG_VALUE(val) <= 0) {
 			if (PyDict_DelItem(dirs, key) == -1)
 				goto bail;
 		} else
 			break;
 		Py_CLEAR(key);
 	}
 	ret = 0;
 
 bail:
 	Py_XDECREF(key);
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static int dirs_fromdict(PyObject *dirs, PyObject *source, char skipchar)
 {
 	PyObject *key, *value;
 	Py_ssize_t pos = 0;
 
 	while (PyDict_Next(source, &pos, &key, &value)) {
 		if (!PyBytes_Check(key)) {
 			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "expected string key");
 			return -1;
 		}
 		if (skipchar) {
 			if (!dirstate_tuple_check(value)) {
 				PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
 						"expected a dirstate tuple");
 				return -1;
 			}
 			if (((dirstateTupleObject *)value)->state == skipchar)
 				continue;
 		}
 
 		if (_addpath(dirs, key) == -1)
 			return -1;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int dirs_fromiter(PyObject *dirs, PyObject *source)
 {
 	PyObject *iter, *item = NULL;
 	int ret;
 
 	iter = PyObject_GetIter(source);
 	if (iter == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
 	while ((item = PyIter_Next(iter)) != NULL) {
 		if (!PyBytes_Check(item)) {
 			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "expected string");
 			break;
 		}
 
 		if (_addpath(dirs, item) == -1)
 			break;
 		Py_CLEAR(item);
 	}
 
 	ret = PyErr_Occurred() ? -1 : 0;
 	Py_DECREF(iter);
 	Py_XDECREF(item);
 	return ret;
 }
 
 /*
  * Calculate a refcounted set of directory names for the files in a
  * dirstate.
  */
 static int dirs_init(dirsObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
 	PyObject *dirs = NULL, *source = NULL;
 	char skipchar = 0;
 	int ret = -1;
 
 	self->dict = NULL;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|Oc:__init__", &source, &skipchar))
 		return -1;
 
 	dirs = PyDict_New();
 
 	if (dirs == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
 	if (source == NULL)
 		ret = 0;
 	else if (PyDict_Check(source))
 		ret = dirs_fromdict(dirs, source, skipchar);
 	else if (skipchar)
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
 				"skip character is only supported "
 				"with a dict source");
 	else
 		ret = dirs_fromiter(dirs, source);
 
 	if (ret == -1)
 		Py_XDECREF(dirs);
 	else
 		self->dict = dirs;
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 PyObject *dirs_addpath(dirsObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
 	PyObject *path;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!:addpath", &PyBytes_Type, &path))
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (_addpath(self->dict, path) == -1)
 		return NULL;
 
 	Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
 static PyObject *dirs_delpath(dirsObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
 	PyObject *path;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!:delpath", &PyBytes_Type, &path))
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (_delpath(self->dict, path) == -1)
 		return NULL;
 
 	Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
 static int dirs_contains(dirsObject *self, PyObject *value)
 {
 	return PyBytes_Check(value) ? PyDict_Contains(self->dict, value) : 0;
 }
 
 static void dirs_dealloc(dirsObject *self)
 {
 	Py_XDECREF(self->dict);
 	PyObject_Del(self);
 }
 
 static PyObject *dirs_iter(dirsObject *self)
 {
 	return PyObject_GetIter(self->dict);
 }
 
 static PySequenceMethods dirs_sequence_methods;
 
 static PyMethodDef dirs_methods[] = {
 	{"addpath", (PyCFunction)dirs_addpath, METH_VARARGS, "add a path"},
 	{"delpath", (PyCFunction)dirs_delpath, METH_VARARGS, "remove a path"},
 	{NULL} /* Sentinel */
 };
 
 static PyTypeObject dirsType = { PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL) };
 
 void dirs_module_init(PyObject *mod)
 {
 	dirs_sequence_methods.sq_contains = (objobjproc)dirs_contains;
 	dirsType.tp_name = "parsers.dirs";
 	dirsType.tp_new = PyType_GenericNew;
 	dirsType.tp_basicsize = sizeof(dirsObject);
 	dirsType.tp_dealloc = (destructor)dirs_dealloc;
 	dirsType.tp_as_sequence = &dirs_sequence_methods;
 	dirsType.tp_flags = Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT;
 	dirsType.tp_doc = "dirs";
 	dirsType.tp_iter = (getiterfunc)dirs_iter;
 	dirsType.tp_methods = dirs_methods;
 	dirsType.tp_init = (initproc)dirs_init;
 
 	if (PyType_Ready(&dirsType) < 0)
 		return;
 	Py_INCREF(&dirsType);
 
 	PyModule_AddObject(mod, "dirs", (PyObject *)&dirsType);
 }