#5024 Rework the Preinit framework into something simpler

[David Kastrup]

Rework the Preinit framework into something simpler

The previous introduction of the Preinit class had to work with
uninitialized data members in a state before construction.

Particularly for data structures like vector classes, this
was quite awkward. Moving such structures into a separate
class initialized before the smobifying base class fixes
this deficiency and makes the behavior much more reliable,
at the cost of making the class hierarchy a bit more nested.

http://codereview.appspot.com/318200043

[Anonymous]

Happy New Year!

Passes make, make check and a full make doc.

[Anonymous]

Patch on countdown for Jan 8th

[Anonymous]

Patch counted down - please push.

[David Kastrup]

Pushed to staging as
commit 6786ba7b5cd73f94eec0a49fd68d0e6d9d283437
Author: David Kastrup dak@gnu.org
Date: Sun Jan 1 10:14:14 2017 +0100

Issue 5024: Rework the Preinit framework into something simpler

The previous introduction of the Preinit class had to work with
uninitialized data members in a state before construction.

Particularly for data structures like vector classes, this
was quite awkward.  Moving such structures into a separate
class initialized before the smobifying base class fixes
this deficiency and makes the behavior much more reliable,
at the cost of making the class hierarchy a bit more nested.