Advanced Debugger Support C-API is useless without HEAD_LOCK()/HEAD_UNLOCK()

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, python
Domain
api, devtools

Research direction

Start by reading the linked BPO issue 41062 and the CPython C API material related to Advanced Debugger Support and HEAD_LOCK()/HEAD_UNLOCK(). No implementation files or tests are named, so first identify the affected API entry points and existing coverage. Done means the debugger C API supports the required locking behavior with corresponding validation.

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Description

3.11 topic-C-API type-feature
BPO 41062
Nosy @vstinner, @AndreiPashkin

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2020-06-21.08:53:48.034>
labels = ['expert-C-API', 'type-feature', '3.11']
title = 'Advanced Debugger Support C-API is useless without HEAD_LOCK()/HEAD_UNLOCK()'
updated_at = <Date 2021-12-06.18:25:56.506>
user = 'https://github.com/AndreiPashkin'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2021-12-06.18:25:56.506>
actor = 'iritkatriel'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['C API']
creation = <Date 2020-06-21.08:53:48.034>
creator = 'pashkin'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 41062
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['371988', '371989']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['vstinner', 'pashkin']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue41062'
versions = ['Python 3.11']

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