[Python-Dev] Who understands _ssl.c on Windows? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Apr 8 10:13:45 CEST 2006

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

Perhaps it's the case that doubles are aligned to an 8-byte boundary when socketmodule.c is compiled, but (for some unknown reason) only to a 4-byte boundary when ssl.c is compiled. Although that seems to match the details in the bug report, I have no theory for how that could happen (I don't see any MS packing pragmas anywhere).

Well, poking a bit reveals that _ssl and _socket are built by quite different mechanisms: _socket by a .vcproj but _ssl by "_ssl.mak". I don't see anything overly suspicious in _ssl.mak, but I don't really know much about Windows compiler options...

Cheers, mwh

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