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Add a note about python 3.8 ABI dropping the m flag (#396)
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mayeut authored Nov 17, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ are also encountered in the wild. Other less common or virtually
unheard of flag combinations (such as ``--with-pydebug`` (``d``) and
``--without-pymalloc`` (absence of ``m``)) are not provided.

Note that `starting with CPython 3.8 <https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.8.html#build-and-c-api-changes>`_,
default ``sys.abiflags`` became an empty string: the ``m`` flag for pymalloc
became useless (builds with and without pymalloc are ABI compatible) and so has
been removed. (e.g. ``/opt/python/cp38-cp38``)

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