Update comment and tweak change note

markshannon · markshannon · commit d941a188882a · 2024-04-12T14:25:21.000+01:00
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
@@ -115,8 +115,11 @@ check by comparing the reference count field to the immortality reference count.
 // Kept for backward compatibility. It was needed by Py_TRACE_REFS build.
 #define _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT
 
-// Make all internal uses of PyObject_HEAD_INIT immortal while preserving the
-// C-API expectation that the refcnt will be set to 1.
+/* Make all uses of PyObject_HEAD_INIT immortal.
+ *
+ * Statically allocated objects might be shared between
+ * interpreters, so must be marked as immortal.
+ */
 #if defined(Py_GIL_DISABLED)
 #define PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type)    \
     {                               \
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-04-09-11-31-25.gh-issue-115776.5Nthd0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-04-09-11-31-25.gh-issue-115776.5Nthd0.rst
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so should be
+Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so must be
 marked as such regardless of whether they are in extension modules or not.

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`1`		`-Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so should be`
	`1`	`+Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so must be`
`2`	`2`	`marked as such regardless of whether they are in extension modules or not.`