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One commit now. The other two — the free-threaded t and the size projections it moved — landed as #1245, and this branch is rebased onto it.

The C header directory (half of #1247)

pip install of a project with an Extension failed before the compiler ran. Python.h lived inside the source tree at pyre/pyre-interpreter/include/pyre3.14t/, and nothing put it on the prefix that sysconfig.get_paths()['include'] names; the only consumer, cpyext_smoke.rs, reached it by repo-relative path, so no test covered the gap. It moves to include/pyre3.14t/, the directory the posix_prefix scheme resolves to.

INCLUDEPY and CONFINCLUDEPY sat in the same empty-string list as the library variables, stating that no such files are installed. That is still true without cpyext, so both stay empty there and only a build with an extension loader names the directory. Build backends that skip _distutils — meson-python, scikit-build, CMake's FindPython — read INCLUDEPY directly.

Publishing INCLUDEPY is also what settles the pypy -vs- pyre name disagreement for the compile. _get_python_inc_posix resolves in order:

def _get_python_inc_posix(prefix, spec_prefix, plat_specific):
    return (
        _get_python_inc_posix_python(plat_specific)
        or _extant(_get_python_inc_from_config(plat_specific, spec_prefix))
        or _get_python_inc_posix_prefix(prefix)
    )

The middle arm reads INCLUDEPY, guarded by _extant so the directory has to be there; only if it is empty or missing does it fall through to _get_python_inc_posix_prefix, which computes include/<impl><version><abiflags> with <impl> selected by IS_PYPY = '__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names — the include/pypy3.14t #1247 reports. Measured on the staged install, setuptools 84.0.0:

INCLUDEPY published : <prefix>/include/pyre3.14t
INCLUDEPY empty     : <prefix>/include/pypy3.14t

So build_ext appends a usable -I on its own. CFLAGS carrying the directory is a second, independent route rather than the only one — configure_system builds every extension compile as cc + ' ' + cflags, which covers a setuptools whose get_python_inc has no config-var arm.

Without an extension loader, INCLUDEPY and CFLAGS are byte-identical to before.

This does not close #1247. The other half survives: _distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() (:262) has no config-var arm at all, so it still answers lib/pypy3.14/site-packages where sysconfig says lib/pyre3.14t/site-packages — measured on the same install. There is no lever on our side: the function reads only IS_PYPY, sys.platlibdir (which it ignores for the pure-Python case) and get_python_version(), and appends no abiflags, so nothing pyre publishes can move it. Deciding which name wins is the question #1247 actually poses.

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Three findings applied, one declined.

  • Gate the include metadata on the extension loader, not on cfg!(feature = "cpyext"). create_dynamic is also absent under sandbox and on a platform pyre has no loader for; there _imp.extension_suffixes() is empty and naming a header directory would let a build backend compile an extension this interpreter cannot load. The gate is now the predicate extension_abi_suffix and has_so_extension are already built on.

  • Quote the -I path. Both readers split CFLAGS as shell words — distutils.util.split_quoted for the cc + ' ' + cflags command line, and the shell for a backend that pastes the variable into one — so a prefix with a space in it arrived as two arguments. Double-quoted when it holds a character either would break on, bare otherwise, with a unit test on both.

  • Shift the inline offsets with the enlarged object header (cpython_type_offsets) — that one belonged to the size commit and landed in sysconfig, sizeof: advertise a build without the lock, and report its layout #1245.

  • Declined: define Py_GIL_DISABLED as 1 in include/pyre3.14t/Python.h. The suggestion is that the macro should agree with the config var. It cannot here: this header declares pyre's own mirror PyObject{ob_refcnt, ob_pyre_link, ob_type} — which is neither CPython layout, and the surface is four exported symbols (Py_IncRef, Py_DecRef, PyModuleDef_Init, PyModule_Create2). Defining the macro sends every free-threading-aware extension down a branch this header cannot satisfy. Compiling the documented pattern from the free-threading-extensions HOWTO against it:

    $ cc -c -I include/pyre3.14t probe.c            # as shipped
    $ cc -c -I include/pyre3.14t -DPy_GIL_DISABLED=1 probe.c
    error: call to undeclared function 'PyUnstable_Module_SetGIL'
    error: use of undeclared identifier 'Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED'
    

    PyUnstable_Module_SetGIL, Py_mod_gil and Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED appear nowhere in the tree. Defining the macro is the last step of adding that surface, not the first; sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_GIL_DISABLED"), which is what the same HOWTO recommends for configuration checks, already answers 1.

The spelling the wasm snapshot picked

INCLUDEPY and CONFINCLUDEPY keep their place in the empty-default list and a cpyext build overwrites them, rather than being lifted out of it into stores of their own. The two are identical for a build with no loader — same config vars, same everything — but the lifted version moves wasm synth/nested_list_comprehension_hot from bridges_compiled 4 / guard_failures 802 to 6 / 1202.

Nothing in this commit runs while that bench is traced: it is pure Python with no imports, and 'sysconfig' in sys.modules is False at startup, so init_sysconfigdata is never entered. The counters follow the shape of the code rather than anything it does. Measured as a ladder on a clean 4a7682eb199 worktree, same machine, same command (pyre/check.py --backend wasm --synthetic-pattern nested_list_comprehension_hot):

tree result
4a7682eb199 15/15
+ a decoy: two functions of the same shape, same anchors, same never-taken branch 15/15
+ the two keys moved out of the array on their own 15/15
+ this commit's importing.rs with the lifted stores FAIL 4→6, 802→1202
+ this commit's importing.rs as written 15/15

Worth an issue on its own — a jit-stats gate that moves when unreachable code changes shape is measuring something other than the trace — but not worth blocking this on.

Verification

Measured on 4a7682eb199, the base at the time. The branch has since been rebased onto 31caaba137e; the gates are re-running there and this section will be refreshed with those numbers.

LLBC re-extracted and its fingerprint matching the tree:

  • cargo fmt --check: clean
  • pyre/check.py: dynasm 436/436, cranelift 436/436, wasm 428/429
  • cargo test -p pyre-interpreter --features dynasm cflags_include_path: 1 passed
  • cpyext_smoke under --features dynasm,cpyext: 1 passed — it finds the header at include/pyre3.14t
  • a build with no extension loader publishes INCLUDEPY='', CONFINCLUDEPY='', CFLAGS='-DNDEBUG -O2' — byte-identical to base

The staged install

bin/pyre (--features dynasm,cpyext) + lib/pyre3.14t from stage-stdlib.py + include/pyre3.14t:

abiflags      t
ABIFLAGS      t
GIL_DISABLED  1
stdlib        <prefix>/lib/pyre3.14t
purelib       <prefix>/lib/pyre3.14t/site-packages
include       <prefix>/include/pyre3.14t
INCLUDEPY     <prefix>/include/pyre3.14t
CFLAGS        -DNDEBUG -O2 -I<prefix>/include/pyre3.14t

pyre -m venv on that prefix, then pip install ./ext on a project whose setup.py declares an Extension:

Created wheel for pipextmod: pipextmod-0.1.0-pyre314-pyre314_darwin-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
Successfully installed pipextmod-0.1.0

IMPORTED <module 'pipextmod' from '.../lib/pyre3.14t/site-packages/pipextmod.pyre314-darwin.so'>

setuptools reached the compiler through PEP 517 build isolation, compiled against Python.h, and the module imported. With setuptools 84.0.0 installed in that venv, the two halves of #1247 read:

sysconfig include     <prefix>/include/pyre3.14t
distutils python_inc  <prefix>/include/pyre3.14t     ✅
sysconfig purelib     <venv>/lib/pyre3.14t/site-packages
distutils python_lib  <venv>/lib/pypy3.14/site-packages   ⛔ #1247's remainder

The remaining red row is base-owned

wasm synth/short_circuit_value_kept_stack fails its ratio gate locally at 4.5x against a 3.7x gate. A clean origin/main worktree measured 5.8x on the same machine, and the merged PRs that produced the current base carry it too — #1242 5.5x, #1243 5.2x, #1253 5.4x, #1245 5.3x on their own ubuntu jobs.

A note for anyone re-checking that row: it only gates when dynasm ran in the same invocation — check.py:2625-2644 reads bench_elapsed[("dynasm", name)] and drops the fixture into wasm_ratio_ungated when it is absent. A --backend wasm run still prints a dynasm column from the recorded baseline and still reports ALL PASSED. Use --backend dynasm,wasm.

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The change adds a Python 3.14t C API header and updates free-threaded ABI metadata, object layouts, standard-library discovery, staging, and cpyext compilation paths.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Python 3.14t C API header
include/pyre3.14t/Python.h, pyre/pyrex/tests/cpyext_smoke.rs
Adds public C API declarations, module structures, reference-counting APIs, export macros, and documentation macros. The cpyext smoke test uses the new header directory.
Free-threaded object layouts
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/typedef.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/sys/vm.rs
Object-size calculations use the active CPython header, including the expanded free-threaded layout. Runtime ABI values report the t suffix where applicable.
ABI metadata and stdlib discovery
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/importing.rs, scripts/stage-stdlib.py, dist-workspace.toml
Sysconfig metadata, include paths, stdlib discovery, staging, comments, and test fixtures use pyre3.14t and ABIFLAGS="t".

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The PR publishes a free-threaded installation layout, but its C header does not define Py_GIL_DISABLED. Extensions built against that header may select the wrong ABI path, so the missing definition should be corrected before merging.

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  participant Interpreter as Interpreter
  participant Sysconfig as _sysconfigdata
  participant Stdlib as stdlib_at_prefix
  Interpreter->>Interpreter: declares_gil_disabled()
  Interpreter->>Sysconfig: publish Py_GIL_DISABLED and ABIFLAGS
  Sysconfig->>Sysconfig: add conditional cpyext include paths
  Interpreter->>Stdlib: locate packaged standard library
  Stdlib-->>Interpreter: return lib/pyre3.14t path
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// `-lpython3.x`.
store_int(vars, "Py_DEBUG", 0);
store_int(vars, "Py_GIL_DISABLED", 0);
store_int(vars, "Py_GIL_DISABLED", 1);

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P1 Badge Keep Py_GIL_DISABLED aligned with the actual GIL

Whenever a package branches on sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_GIL_DISABLED"), this now advertises a free-threaded runtime even though majit/majit-gc/src/rgil.rs acquires a global lock while executing Pyre code. This changes behavior beyond directory naming: lib_pypy/cffi/setuptools_ext.py:107-116 selects different C-extension ABI settings, and test.support enables free-threaded expectations while test.test_interpreters skips GIL coverage. Keep this value at 0 and coordinate ABIFLAGS, sys.abiflags, and the installed layout without the t.

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cflags.push_str(" -I");
cflags.push_str(&include_py);

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P2 Badge Quote the include path added to CFLAGS

When a cpyext-enabled installation prefix contains whitespace, this produces a value such as -I/opt/My Pyre/include/pyre3.14t; build backends split CFLAGS into compiler arguments, turning that into -I/opt/My plus a stray input path and causing extension compilation to fail. INCLUDEPY does not neutralize the malformed compiler flags, so the path must be shell-quoted/escaped or passed through a structured include-directory mechanism.

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pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/importing.rs
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1. Regressions to PyPy parity introduced by this patch

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2. Other mismatches introduced by this patch

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/importing.rs:1136 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/api.py:63-80 — Pyre now publishes $base_prefix/include/pyre3.14t through CFLAGS, INCLUDEPY, and CONFINCLUDEPY, but this patch only relocates the header in the source checkout; no installation rule copies it to that advertised prefix. PyPy supplies its actual cpyext include directory to compilation. A deployed Pyre can therefore advertise a nonexistent header path.

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/importing.rs:1024 ↔ pypy/tool/cpyext/extbuild.py:225-236quote_for_cflags uses double quotes but does not escape $, backticks, or newlines. A prefix containing $(...) or $VAR is expanded by shell-based consumers, so the advertised -I no longer denotes the literal installed directory. PyPy passes include directories as compiler arguments, avoiding shell expansion.

3. Pre-existing mismatches (already present before this patch)

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/cpyext.rs:554-557 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/modsupport.py:56-62,287-296 — Pyre discards api_version; PyPy checks it and emits a RuntimeWarning for an unsupported C-API version.

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/cpyext.rs:561-576 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/modsupport.py:84-94 — Pyre rejects a nonempty PyMethodDef table, positive m_size, slots, and module GC hooks. PyPy converts methods and allocates positive-sized module state. This was already present before the header relocation.

  • include/pyre3.14t/Python.h:95 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/include/modsupport.h:166-191 — the unchanged header always passes PYTHON_API_VERSION and does not define PYTHON_ABI_VERSION; PyPy’s Py_LIMITED_API branch passes ABI version 3.

  • include/pyre3.14t/Python.h:1-2 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/include/Python.h:5-8,patchlevel.h:30-40 — the unchanged public header uses PYRE_PYTHON_H and omits PYPY_VERSION/PYPY_CPYEXT_GC. Extensions taking PyPy compatibility branches instead see neither the standard Python-header guard nor PyPy’s advertised cpyext identity.

4. Structural adaptations

  • include/pyre3.14t/Python.h:33-37 ↔ pypy/module/cpyext/parse/cpyext_object.h:3-10ob_pyre_link replaces PyPy’s ob_pypy_link while preserving the three-word raw-object layout. This is a fundamental Rust-to-RPython bridge naming/ownership adaptation, not a parity regression.

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// `include/{implementation_lower}{py_version_short}{abi_thread}`, the
// directory the posix_prefix scheme resolves `get_paths()['include']` to.
// An interpreter that publishes no base prefix has nowhere to name.
let include_py = if cfg!(feature = "cpyext") && !base_prefix.as_os_str().is_empty() {

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P2 Badge Gate include metadata with the extension loader

When a build enables cpyext together with sandbox, or enables it on Windows, this condition publishes non-empty INCLUDEPY/CONFINCLUDEPY and adds the header to CFLAGS, even though the loader is gated by all(feature = "cpyext", not(feature = "sandbox"), macOS-or-Linux) and _imp.extension_suffixes() is therefore empty. Build backends can successfully compile an extension that this interpreter can never discover or load; use the same platform/sandbox predicate for the header metadata.

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let mut size = word; // ob_tid
size += 2 + 1 + 1; // ob_flags, ob_mutex, ob_gc_bits
size = align_to(size, 4) + 4; // ob_ref_local
size = align_to(size, word) + word; // ob_ref_shared
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P2 Badge Shift inline offsets with the enlarged object header

When this selects the 32-byte free-threaded header on a 64-bit target, cpython_type_layout() increases the basicsizes of type, set, and memoryview by 16 bytes, but cpython_type_offsets() still returns their GIL-layout positive offsets (33/46, 24, and 17 words). For example, set.__basicsize__ becomes 216 while set.__weakrefoffset__ remains 192 instead of moving with PyObject_HEAD, exposing internally inconsistent CPython 3.14 layout metadata to callers; compute these positive offsets relative to the selected header as well.

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printf '%s\n' '--- header macro definitions ---'
printf '`#include` "Python.h"\n' |
  cc -dM -E -I include/pyre3.14t -x c - 2>/dev/null |
  grep -E '(^`#define` Py_GIL_DISABLED|^`#define` PY_(MAJOR|MINOR|MICRO)_VERSION|^`#define` PY_VERSION_HEX)' || true

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In CPython (starting with version 3.13), the Py_GIL_DISABLED macro is a preprocessor definition used to identify free-threaded builds, where the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is disabled [1][2]. Key characteristics and usage guidelines include: 1. Identification: In free-threaded builds, Py_GIL_DISABLED is defined as 1; in regular, GIL-enabled builds, it is not defined [1][3]. You can use this to conditionally compile code: #ifdef Py_GIL_DISABLED /* Code for free-threaded builds */ #endif 2. Windows Build Requirement: A known limitation exists where the macro is not automatically defined when building extensions on Windows [1][4]. Developers must manually define it (e.g., passing -DPy_GIL_DISABLED=1 to the compiler) when building from source [1][5]. 3. Extension Support: Extension modules must explicitly indicate support for free threading [6][7]. For single-phase initialization, call PyUnstable_Module_SetGIL(m, Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED) inside an #ifdef Py_GIL_DISABLED block [1][7]. For multi-phase initialization, use the Py_mod_gil slot in the module definition [7]. Failing to mark an extension as compatible will cause the interpreter to issue a warning and re-enable the GIL at runtime [1][2]. 4. Configuration Checks: For logic that depends on the build configuration, the recommended approach is to use sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_GIL_DISABLED") [2]. For example, when using setuptools with the limited API (py_limited_api=True), you can opt out for free-threaded builds using: py_limited_api=not sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_GIL_DISABLED") [1][7]. 5. Binaries and Tags: Extensions built for the free-threaded configuration are indicated by a t suffix in their filenames and wheel tags (e.g., cp313t) [1][7]. Note that while CPython 3.15 introduced abi3t for stable ABI support in free-threaded builds [8], standard limited API support for free-threading remains a specific consideration during the build process [1][7].

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Define Py_GIL_DISABLED as 1 in include/pyre3.14t/Python.h.

sysconfig exposes Py_GIL_DISABLED=1, but C extensions read this compile-time macro. Without it, #ifdef Py_GIL_DISABLED selects the GIL-enabled branch because CFLAGS does not define an equivalent flag.

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In `@include/pyre3.14t/Python.h` around lines 11 - 18, Define the compile-time
macro Py_GIL_DISABLED as 1 in include/pyre3.14t/Python.h alongside the Python
version macros, so C extensions select the same free-threaded configuration
exposed by sysconfig.

`pip install` of a project with an `Extension` failed before the compiler
ran: `Python.h` lived at `pyre/pyre-interpreter/include/pyre3.14t/`, inside
the source tree, and nothing put it on the prefix that
`sysconfig.get_paths()['include']` names. The only consumer was
`cpyext_smoke.rs`, which reached it by repo-relative path, so no test
covered the gap. Move it to `include/pyre3.14t/`, the directory the
posix_prefix scheme resolves to.

`INCLUDEPY` and `CONFINCLUDEPY` held `""` alongside the library variables,
which stated that no such files are installed. That is still true without
`cpyext`, so both keep that default and only a `cpyext` build overwrites it.
meson-python, scikit-build and CMake's FindPython read `INCLUDEPY` directly.

Overwriting is also the spelling the wasm snapshot tolerates. Publishing the
two names from a `store_str` of their own instead, and dropping them from the
list, leaves a build with no loader with exactly the same config vars, but
moves `wasm synth/nested_list_comprehension_hot` from `bridges_compiled 4`
and `guard_failures 802` to `6` and `1202`. That bench is pure Python, imports
no `sysconfig`, and `_sysconfigdata` is not in `sys.modules` at startup, so
nothing here runs while it is traced; the counters follow the shape of the
code rather than anything it does. Measured on a clean `4a7682eb199`
worktree: base green, this diff with the separate stores red, this diff as
written green.

Publishing `INCLUDEPY` is also what settles which name `build_ext` compiles
against. `_get_python_inc_posix` tries `_get_python_inc_posix_python`, then
`_extant(_get_python_inc_from_config(...))`, then
`_get_python_inc_posix_prefix`. The middle arm reads `INCLUDEPY` and the
`_extant` guard requires the directory to be there; only an empty or missing
one falls through to the last, which builds `include/<impl><version><abiflags>`
with `<impl>` selected by `IS_PYPY = '__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names`
and so names `include/pypy3.14t`, a directory pyre does not install. Measured
against setuptools 84.0.0 on a staged install: `INCLUDEPY` published gives
`include/pyre3.14t`, `INCLUDEPY` emptied gives `include/pypy3.14t`.

Carry the directory in `CFLAGS` as a second route rather than the only one:
`configure_system` builds every extension compile as `cc + ' ' + cflags`, so
a setuptools whose `get_python_inc` has no config-var arm still compiles.
The path is double-quoted when it holds a character `split_quoted` or a
shell would break a word on, and left bare otherwise.

Both names are gated on the predicate `create_dynamic` is gated on, which
`extension_abi_suffix` and `has_so_extension` already read, rather than on
the `cpyext` feature alone: a `sandbox` build, or one on a platform with no
loader, answers an empty `_imp.extension_suffixes()`, and naming a header
directory there would let a build backend compile an extension the
interpreter cannot load.

A cpyext build now takes `pip install ./ext` through to an imported
`ext.pyre314-darwin.so` created by `PyModule_Create`. Without the feature
`INCLUDEPY` and `CFLAGS` are byte-identical to before.

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@youknowone youknowone changed the title sysconfig: publish the C header directory in a cpyext build, and restore the free-threaded t sysconfig: publish the C header directory in a cpyext build Aug 16, 2026

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base_prefix
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.join("pyre3.14t")
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P2 Badge Preserve non-UTF-8 bytes in the include prefix

When a cpyext-enabled interpreter is installed under a Unix path containing non-UTF-8 bytes, to_string_lossy() replaces those bytes with U+FFFD, so both INCLUDEPY and the added CFLAGS entry name a directory that does not exist and extension compilation cannot find Python.h. Preserve the path through the same WTF-8/surrogate-escape conversion already used immediately above for base_prefix_str, allowing subprocess argument encoding to recover the original filesystem bytes.

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pip cannot build a C extension: the headers are staged nowhere, and distutils looks under include/pypy3.14t while sysconfig says include/pyre3.14t

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