[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-405227 ] sizeof(Py_UNICODE)==2 ????

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Bugs #405227, was updated on 2001-03-01 11:21
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Category: Unicode
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jon Saenz
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous
Summary: sizeof(Py_UNICODE)==2 ????

Initial Comment:
We are trying to install Python 2.0 in a Cray T3E.

After a painful process of removing several modules
which produce some errors (mmap, sha, md5), we get core
dumps when we run python because under this platform,
there does not exist a 16-bit numeric type. Unsigned
short is 4 bytes long.

We have finally defined unicode objects as unsigned
short, despite they are 4 bytes long, and we have
changed a sentence in 
Objects/unicodeobject.c
to:
if (sizeof(Py_UNICODE)!=sizeof(unsigned short){

It compiles and runs now, but the test on regular
expressions crashes and the whole regression test does,
too.

Support of Unicode for this platform is not correct in
version 2.0 of Python.

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