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9999(Contributed by Carl Meyer in :issue: `33499 `.)
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101+ Debug build uses the same ABI as release build
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104+ Python now uses the same ABI when built in release and in debug mode. On Unix,
105+ when Python is build in debug mode, it is now possible to load C extensions
106+ built in release mode and C extensions built using the stable ABI.
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108+ Release build and debug build are now ABI compatible: the ``Py_DEBUG `` define
109+ no longer implies the ``Py_TRACE_REFS `` define which introduces the only ABI
110+ incompatibility. A new ``./configure --with-trace-refs `` build option is now
111+ required to get ``Py_TRACE_REFS `` define which adds :func: `sys.getobjects `
112+ function and :envvar: `PYTHONDUMPREFS ` environment variable.
113+ (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue: `36465 `.)
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115+ On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython. It is now possible to
116+ load a C extension built using a shared library Python
117+ with a statically linked Python.
118+ (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue: `21536 `.)
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120+ On Unix, when Python is built in debug mode, import now also looks for C
121+ extensions compiled in release mode and for C extensions compiled with the
122+ stable ABI.
123+ (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue: `36722 `.)
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102126Other Language Changes
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