[Python-Dev] ssize_t question: longs in header files (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Mon May 29 17:17:41 CEST 2006

On 5/29/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

* ints: Include/intobject.h: long obival;

I considered asking about this before, as it would give '64-bit power' to Win64 integers. It's a rather big change, though (lots of code assumes PyInts fit in signed longs, which would be untrue then.)

On the other hand, if a separate type was used for PyInts (Py_pyint_t or whatever, defaulting to long, except on LLP64 systems), EWT's request for a 64-bit integer represented by C 'long long's would be a simple configure switch.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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