[Cython] "long long" versus "PY_LONG_LONG"

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 29 March 2015 at 13:33, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Lisandro Dalcin schrieb am 29.03.2015 um 12:17:
>> At some point Cython lost the ability of using PY_LONG_LONG instead of
>> "long long" in generated C code. The big offenders are the following
>> two files:
>>
>> Cython/Utility/Overflow.c
>> Cython/Utility/TypeConversion.c
>>
>> Do we want to continue using PY_LONG_LONG? Otherwise, what about
>> Microsoft compilers? Going back to PY_LONG_LONG everywhere is quite
>> easy right now, let me know and I'll contribute the patch for the
>> upcoming 0.22.1 release (if that ever happens).
>
> If PyLL helps in any way, then, by all means, we should use it.
>
> And yes, there should be a 0.22.1 release. I selected changes for it
> already, and saw that you did, too. We should give the current branch
> another review to make sure we didn't forget anything else, and then
> release it.
>

OK, please give me a day to push the PyLL patch. Thank you!


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