[Python-3000] sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Fair enough.  My twisted mind was trying to find ways that size_t
> might be something other than long or long long, but that
> seems unlikely...

There has been a report where sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long). It breaks things in
the dict implementation:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1646068

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