Hi,

The docs have this rule for slot initialization for the benefit of Cygwin:

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/db6a569de7ae595ada53b618fce6bbbd1c9...

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- PyType_GenericNew, /* tp_new */ + noddy_NoddyType.tp_new = PyType_GenericNew; + if (PyType_Ready(&noddy_NoddyType) < 0) + return;

This is absolutely not required by C99 (and probably never was).

'PyType_GenericNew' is an address constant, and MSVC supports it just fine -- at least since VS 2008.

Does anyone know if Cygwin still misbehaves? I would like to get rid of this arcane rule.

https://bugs.python.org/issue31443

Stefan Krah