I just chooses a large enough buffer size, there is not much to waste anyway.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > > > > Den 22. aug. 2013 kl. 06:01 skrev Robert Bradshaw <rober...@gmail.com>: > >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:31 AM, yi huang <yi.codepla...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I use cython 0.19.1, when compile following code: >>> >>> cdef void some_function(): >>> cdef char buf[sizeof(long)*8/3+6] >>> >>> Got error message: >>> >>> Error compiling Cython file: >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> ... >>> cdef void some_function(): >>> cdef char buf[sizeof(long)*8/3+6] >>> ^ >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> /tmp/test.pyx:2:17: Variable type 'char []' is incomplete >> >> That's an interesting one... it's a compile time value at C >> compilation time, but not a Cython compilation time. I don't have a >> quick fix. >> > > That's an annoying error. I have never encountered it, but still it annoys me > :-( > > A quick fix is to use alloca instead > > cdef char *buf = alloca(sizeof(long)*8/3+6) > > but beware that sizeof(buf) will be different. > > Sturla > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cython-devel mailing list > cython-devel@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel -- http://yi-programmer.com/ _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
