py/objmodule: Add a table of built-in modules with delegation.

This replaces the previous QSTR_null entry in the globals dict which could
leak out to Python (e.g. via iteration of mod.__dict__) and could lead to
crashes.

It results in smaller code size at the expense of turning a lookup into a
loop, but the list it is looping over likely only contains one or two
elements.

To allow a module to register its custom attr function it can use the new
`MP_REGISTER_MODULE_DELEGATION` macro.

This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/py/obj.h b/py/obj.h
index 005383e9f3..de4c15b22c 100644
--- a/py/obj.h
+++ b/py/obj.h
@@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ typedef struct _mp_rom_obj_t { mp_const_obj_t o; } mp_rom_obj_t;
 // As above, but allow this module to be extended from the filesystem.
 #define MP_REGISTER_EXTENSIBLE_MODULE(module_name, obj_module)
 
+// Add a custom handler for a builtin module that will be called to delegate
+// failed attribute lookups.
+#define MP_REGISTER_MODULE_DELEGATION(obj_module, fun_name)
+
 // Declare a root pointer (to avoid garbage collection of a global static variable).
 // param variable_declaration: a valid C variable declaration
 #define MP_REGISTER_ROOT_POINTER(variable_declaration)