[Python-Dev] Developing/patching ctypes (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Mar 14 09:06:04 CET 2006

Neal Norwitz wrote:

On 3/9/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

Would it be a solution to move the 'official' ctypes development into Python SVN external/ctypes, or would this be considered abuse? Another location in SVN could be used as well, if external is though to contain only vendor drops... Thomas, I'd be fine with the official ctypes repo being Python SVN. The attached patch fixes all the ctypes tests so they pass on amd64. It also fixes several warnings. I'm not sure what else to do with the patch. Let me know how you want to handle these in the future. I'm not sure the patch is 100% correct. You will need to decide what can be 64 bits and what can't. I believe sq{item,slice,assitem,assslice} all need to use Pyssizet. The types in ctypes.h may not require all the changes I made. I don't know how you want to support older version, so I unconditionally changed the types to Pyssizet. n

Thanks, Neal, I'll look into that this night. In the future I hope to have access to a amd64-linux system, and I'll try to keep this stuff up-to-date myself.

Thomas

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