Hi,

I removed the _PyOS_ReadlineTState variable from the public C API (it was moved to the internal C API). The gdb project sets its readline callback and uses the _PyOS_ReadlineTState variable and so fails to build on Python 3.13.0 alpha2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250652

gdb: PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer = gdbpy_readline_wrapper;

The gdb function uses _PyOS_ReadlineTState to use the Python C API:

PyEval_RestoreThread (_PyOS_ReadlineTState);
gdbpy_convert_exception (except);
PyEval_SaveThread ();

source: py-gdb-readline.c

The _PyOS_ReadlineTState variable was added in 2004 by commit 30ea2f2.

The callback is called with the GIL released. The _PyOS_ReadlineTState variable is used to acquire again the GIL.

In 2020, I made fixes related to GIL but not directly to this issue:

• commit c353764
• commit fa7ab6a