[Distutils] wordlength etc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
>>>sizeofint = struct.calcsize("i")
 >
> well if I wish to store 4 bits/int then this works

s/bits/bytes

calcsize returns the number of 8-bit characters the format
string needs to store the given C types.

>>>>import struct
>>>>print struct.calcsize("i")
> 
> 4
> 
> but I assume we can store more than 4 bits per int, so waht tells us we
> cans store 8 bits/struct unit?

characters map to 8 bits == 1 byte and it's rather unlikely that
a C compiler will use a different mapping any time soon.

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