[Cython] Compilation failes if a class member is named "INFINITY"

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 5 12:30:54 CET 2015


Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Python extension types are just structs at the C level, and struct member
> names cannot be mangled.

Well, in principle it *could* mangle the names in
structs that aren't declared "cdef extern". I didn't
do that in Pyrex because it didn't seem necessary;
I hadn't anticipated problems like collision with
macros.

It's probably too late to change it now, since it
would break existing code that interoperates with
foreign code.

-- 
Greg


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