[3.8] gh-105184: document that marshal functions can fail and need to be checked with PyErr_Occurred (GH-105185) (#105222)

(cherry picked from commit ee26ca1)

Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/c-api/marshal.rst

@@ -25,12 +25,16 @@ unmarshalling.  Version 2 uses a binary format for floating point numbers.
    the least-significant 32 bits of *value*; regardless of the size of the
    native :c:type:`long` type.  *version* indicates the file format.
 
+   This function can fail, in which case it sets the error indicator.
+   Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to check for that.
 
 .. c:function:: void PyMarshal_WriteObjectToFile(PyObject *value, FILE *file, int version)
 
    Marshal a Python object, *value*, to *file*.
    *version* indicates the file format.
 
+   This function can fail, in which case it sets the error indicator.
+   Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to check for that.
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(PyObject *value, int version)
 

Python/marshal.c

@@ -601,6 +601,10 @@ w_clear_refs(WFILE *wf)
 }
 
 /* version currently has no effect for writing ints. */
+/* Note that while the documentation states that this function
+ * can error, currently it never does. Setting an exception in
+ * this function should be regarded as an API-breaking change.
+ */
 void
 PyMarshal_WriteLongToFile(long x, FILE *fp, int version)
 {