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

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Mon May 29 23:33:36 CEST 2006

On 5/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Neal Norwitz wrote: > minus comments, etc yields several questions about whether some > values should use Pyssizet rather than C longs. In particular: > * ints: Include/intobject.h: long obival; As Tim says, this is way out of scope for 2.5. Guido said it is ok to change this to 64-bit ints in 2.6, but I expect some embedded system developers will start screaming when they hear that: 64-bit arithmetic is expensive on a 32-bit machine.

Well, those systems shouldn't have a 64-bit Py_ssize_t anyway, should they?

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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