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diff --git a/doc/source/embedding.rst b/doc/source/embedding.rst index 181249c..8020f21 100644 --- a/doc/source/embedding.rst +++ b/doc/source/embedding.rst @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ inaccuracies in this paragraph or better ways to do things.) ``dlopen("libpythonX.Y.so", RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_GLOBAL)``, which will force ``libpythonX.Y.so`` to be loaded first. -.. __: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/264/ +.. __: https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/264 Using multiple CFFI-made DLLs @@ -522,3 +522,10 @@ calling the C function ``cffi_start_python()`` with no argument. It returns an integer, 0 or -1, to tell if the initialization succeeded or not. Currently there is no way to prevent a failing initialization from also dumping a traceback and more information to stderr. +Note that the function ``cffi_start_python()`` is static: it must be +called from C source written inside ``ffibuilder.set_source()``. To +call it from somewhere else, you need to make a function (with a +different non-static name) in the ``ffibuilder.set_source()`` that just +calls ``cffi_start_python()``. The reason it is static is to avoid +naming conflicts in case you are ultimately trying to link a large C +program with more than one cffi embedded module in it. |