[Python-Dev] Documenting the ssize_t Python C API changes (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Mar 21 18:51:03 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

There are two improvements you could make: - Some of the functions in the first list return Pyssizet; calling them can cause truncation if the result value is larger than INTMAX (and it is assigned to an int). To find those functions, do grep 'PyAPIFUNC(Pyssizet)' Include/*.h

fixed (based on the list MAL just posted).

- Usage of the "old" function pointer type name (e.g. intobjargproc) likely also indicates an error, since many of these pointers have changed there types. I believe the only exception for this is inquiry, which still has legit uses, in nbnonzero, tpclear, and tpisgc.

is there a complete list of these somewhere ?

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