[Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now. (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Fri Mar 10 01:14:50 CET 2006

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

Thomas Wouters wrote: > On 3/9/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote: >> ctypes is in SVN now, and the buildbot is green, > > > Well, only by accident; Neal's amd64 machine has been offline, or you would > have seen yellow blocks for warnings: ctypes has yet to be Pyssizet'ed. Do Do compiler warnings create yellow blocks? There are other warnings on other machines as well. OTOH, testing ctypes (see below) can cause core dumps, these should create orange blinking blocks ;-)

I thought they did, but I guess I was wrong :) Or maybe just the header turns orange (not yellow.)

you want to do that yourself, or do you want me to submit a patch? (Or I > could just check it in ;)

You can do it faster then me, I assume - so go ahead and check it in. I'll backport it to the upstream ctypes CVS repository.

I'm not sure if I'll be faster. It's quite a lot of work to make it completely Py_ssize_t-aware (but worth it, IMHO; ints just don't cut it on 64-bit platforms. :) I have a simple patch to silence the warnings, but it doesn't support indexing beyond int-size and such. I'm also going through all of the code and changing most appropriate things into Py_ssize_t's, and that would be much nicer. I'll probably have some XXX markers left when I'm done, though. Also, how stable should the C API be? Does the C code have any direct users besides Python?

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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