[Python-Dev] Shorter float repr in Python 3.1? (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 18:30:18 CEST 2009

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

If this approach is sane, could it be adopted for all other instances of endianness detection in the py3k code base?

I think everything else is fine: float endianness detection (for marshal, pickle, struct) is done at runtime. Integer endianness detection goes via AC_C_BIGENDIAN, which understands universal builds---but only for autoconf >= 2.62.

Has anyone tested a recent py3k using universal builds? Do all tests pass?

Do you know the right way to create a universal build? If so, I'm in a position to test on 32-bit PPC, 32-bit Intel and 64-bit Intel.

Mark

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