Add _PY_FASTCALL_SMALL_STACK constant

Issue #28870: Add a new _PY_FASTCALL_SMALL_STACK constant, size of "small
stacks" allocated on the C stack to pass positional arguments to
_PyObject_FastCall().

_PyObject_Call_Prepend() now uses a small stack of 5 arguments (40 bytes)
instead of 8 (64 bytes), since it is modified to use _PY_FASTCALL_SMALL_STACK.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Include/abstract.h b/Include/abstract.h
index 8c1e45bb26..f6dfc67585 100644
--- a/Include/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/abstract.h
@@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject **) _PyStack_UnpackDict(
     PyObject **kwnames,
     PyObject *func);
 
+/* Suggested size (number of positional arguments) for arrays of PyObject*
+   allocated on a C stack to avoid allocating memory on the heap memory. Such
+   array is used to pass positional arguments to call functions of the
+   _PyObject_FastCall() family.
+
+   The size is chosen to not abuse the C stack and so limit the risk of stack
+   overflow. The size is also chosen to allow using the small stack for most
+   function calls of the Python standard library. On 64-bit CPU, it allocates
+   40 bytes on the stack. */
+#define _PY_FASTCALL_SMALL_STACK 5
+
 /* Call the callable object 'callable' with the "fast call" calling convention:
    args is a C array for positional arguments (nargs is the number of
    positional arguments), kwargs is a dictionary for keyword arguments.