[Cython] PEP 3121 on extension module initialisation in Py3

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> cdef api void activate(Vehicle *v):
>    .....
> 
> and then in the generated 'delorean_api.h' we have
> 
> static void (*activate)(struct Vehicle *);
> 
> Then the question is: Why the C name of the function pointer
> 'activate' is not mangled, using something like this (as it is
> similarly done for C type objects):
> 
> static void (*__pyx_cfun_8delorean_activate)(struct Vehicle *);
> #define activate __pyx_cfun_8delorean_activate

That's not the case for types at all. If you say

    cdef public class _Element [ type LxmlElementType, object LxmlElement ]:

then the names appear in the C file unchanged.

Stefan