_PyStack_UnpackDict() now returns -1 on error

Issue #29286. Change _PyStack_UnpackDict() prototype to be able to notify of
failure when args is NULL.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Include/abstract.h b/Include/abstract.h
index 43bf251222..961279d470 100644
--- a/Include/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/abstract.h
@@ -177,20 +177,23 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyStack_AsDict(
     PyObject **values,
     PyObject *kwnames);
 
-/* Convert (args, nargs, kwargs) into a (stack, nargs, kwnames).
+/* Convert (args, nargs, kwargs: dict) into a (stack, nargs, kwnames: tuple).
 
-   Return a new stack which should be released by PyMem_Free(), or return
-   args unchanged if kwargs is NULL or an empty dictionary.
+   Return 0 on success, raise an exception and return -1 on error.
+
+   Write the new stack into *p_stack. If *p_stack is differen than args, it
+   must be released by PyMem_Free().
 
    The stack uses borrowed references.
 
    The type of keyword keys is not checked, these checks should be done
    later (ex: _PyArg_ParseStackAndKeywords). */
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject **) _PyStack_UnpackDict(
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyStack_UnpackDict(
     PyObject **args,
     Py_ssize_t nargs,
     PyObject *kwargs,
-    PyObject **kwnames,
+    PyObject ***p_stack,
+    PyObject **p_kwnames,
     PyObject *func);
 
 /* Suggested size (number of positional arguments) for arrays of PyObject*