[Python-checkins] Re: [Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Objectsunicodeobject.c, 2.204, 2.205 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Fri Dec 19 07:54:16 EST 2003

Michael Hudson wrote:

Hye-Shik Chang <perky at i18n.org> writes: [...]

BTW, do we really support architectures with 9bits-sized char? [...] I don't think we want to make the lives of people porting to such architectures any harder than it already is...

TI make chips where the smallest addressable unit is 16-bits and sizeof(char) == sizeof(int) == 16 bits == 1 byte due to the way the C standard is written.

I don't think Python is ported to any such chip at present (the one I use is a DSP, and I would seriously question the sanity of anyone who tried to run Python on one of these critters), but it's a possibility that shouldn't be ignored. Porting to such a machine would be rather entertaining (sizeof() gets a lot of work in the code for that DSP).

Cheers, Nick.

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