the optional proto 2 slot state.

pickle.py, load_build():  CAUTION:  Noted that cPickle's
load_build and pickle's load_build really don't do the same
things with the state, and didn't before this patch either.
cPickle never tries to do .update(), and has no backoff if
instance.__dict__ can't be retrieved.  There are no tests
that can tell the difference, and part of what cPickle's
load_build() did looked accidental to me, so I don't know
what the true intent is here.

pickletester.py, test_pickle.py:  Got rid of the hack for
exempting cPickle from running some of the proto 2 tests.

dictobject.c, PyDict_Next():  documented intended use.

how to unpickle the new slot-full state tuples.

version was moved into import.c long ago), so squashed the duplication.

exercised by the test suite before cPickle knows how to create NEWOBJ
too.  For now, it was just tried once by hand (via loading a NEWOBJ
pickle created by pickle.py).

attempts to merge the C list-batch and dict-batch code -- they worked, but
it was a godawful mess to read.

guarantee to keep valid pointers in its slots.

tests:  Moved ExtensionSaver from test_copy_reg into pickletester, and
use it both places.  Once extension codes get assigned, it won't be
safe to overwrite them willy nilly in test suites, and ExtensionSaver
does a thorough job of undoing any possible damage.

Beefed up the EXT[124] tests a bit, to check the smallest and largest
codes in each opcode's range too.

Moved such EXT tests as currently exist from TempAbstractPickleTests to
AbstractPickleTests, so that test_cpickle runs them too.

generate these opcodes.

this clarifies that they are part of an internal API (albeit shared
between pickle.py, copy_reg.py and cPickle.c).

I'd like to do the same for copy_reg.dispatch_table, but worry that it
might be used by existing code.  This risk doesn't exist for the
extension registry.

Imported the extension-registry dicts from copy_reg.py, in preparation for
tackling EXT[124].

because it seems more consistent with the rest of the code.

cPickle_PyMapping_HasKey():  This extern function isn't used anywhere in
Python or Zope, so got rid of it.

readability.

load_bool():  Now that I know the intended difference between _PUSH and
_APPEND, used the right one.

Pdata_grow():  Squashed out a redundant overflow test.

overflow holes in Pdata_grow().

a function, then

    p->f(arg1, arg2, ...)

is semantically the same as

    (*p->f)(arg1, arg2, ...)

Changed all instances of the latter into the former.  Given how often
the code embeds this kind of expression in an if test, the unnecessary
parens and dereferening operator were a real drag on readability.

embedded assignments, for readability.

loops.  Renamed DATA and BINDATA to DATA0 and DATA1.  Included
disassemblies, but noted why we can't test them.  Added XXX comment to
cPickle about a mysterious comment, where pickle and cPickle diverge
in how they number PUT indices.

to have an effect before protocol 3 is invented, so no test can be
written for this (yet).

the hitherto unknown (to me) noload() cPickle function, which is (a)
something we don't test at all, and (b) pickle.py doesn't have.

Assorted code cleanups; e.g., sizeof(char) is 1 by definition, so there's
no need to do things like multiply by sizeof(char) in hairy malloc
arguments.  Fixed an undetected-overflow bug in readline_file().

longobject.c:  Fixed a really stupid bug in the new _PyLong_NumBits.

pickle.py:  Fixed stupid bug in save_long():  When proto is 2, it
wrote LONG1 or LONG4, but forgot to return then -- it went on to
append the proto 1 LONG opcode too.
Fixed equally stupid cancelling bugs in load_long1() and
load_long4():  they *returned* the unpickled long instead of pushing
it on the stack.  The return values were ignored.  Tests passed
before only because save_long() pickled the long twice.

Fixed bugs in encode_long().

Noted that decode_long() is quadratic-time despite our hopes,
because long(string, 16) is still quadratic-time in len(string).
It's hex() that's linear-time.  I don't know a way to make decode_long()
linear-time in Python, short of maybe transforming the 256's-complement
bytes into marshal's funky internal format, and letting marshal decode
that.  It would be more valuable to make long(string, 16) linear time.

pickletester.py:  Added a global "protocols" vector so tests can try
all the protocols in a sane way.  Changed test_ints() and test_unicode()
to do so.  Added a new test_long(), but the tail end of it is disabled
because it "takes forever" under pickle.py (but runs very quickly under
cPickle:  cPickle proto 2 for longs is linear-time).

code cleanups, and purged more references to text-vs-binary modes.

already <wink>.

removed woefully inadequate opcode docs and pointed to pickletools.py
instead.

attr, and copy_reg.safe_constructors.

The attached patch enables shared extension
modules to build cleanly under Cygwin without
moving the static initialization of certain function
pointers (i.e., ones exported from the Python
DLL core) to a module initialization function.

Additionally, this patch fixes the modules that
have been changed in the past to accommodate
Cygwin.