-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> The other area where I expected to hear wailing and gnashing of > teeth is users > compiling with third-party extensions that haven't been updated to > a Py_ssize_t > API and still use longs. I would have expected some instability > due to the size > mismatches in function signatures -- the difference would only show- > up with > giant sized data structures -- the bigger they are, the harder they > fall. OTOH, > there have not been any compliants either -- I would have expected > someone to > submit a patch to pyport.h that allowed a #define to force > Py_ssize_t back to a > long so that the poster could make a reliable build that included > non-updated > third-party extensions. When I did an experimental port of our big embedded app to Python 2.5, that's (almost) exactly what I did. I didn't add the #define to a Python header file, but to our own and it worked pretty well, IIRC. I never went farther than the experimental phase though. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRdr1QHEjvBPtnXfVAQIO0wP5Adr7c467NFn5fjmvcAemtvjg+3Tri0qV SHI6LF88tSYkxKLezTojXPFQ+kYTjgz1yLa1KuQ6W9Q8dhiKGUVu7ZqFT12IGcIV n6Yf0htkpGmq/3G7m7D7yWHQrQE3Ce3+f6tI/4aL5eQ3mgdo1y828sY/sCCc4fTC Ln2gSad6g/M= =QQ5y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
