[issue29244] Python 3.6 unnecessarily requires inttypes.h

[rdb]

New submission from rdb:

Python 3.6 now requires inttypes.h on all platforms.  However, this is not provided by MSVC 2010 and 2012, which is still used by some people who build extension modules for Python.

MSVC 2010 does provide stdint.h, and replacing the inttypes.h include with an include to stdint.h seems to work fine.

I would suggest a fix along the lines of this:

#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1800
#include <stdint.h>
#else
#include <inttypes.h>
#endif

Alternatively, the HAVE_INTTYPES_H definition could be used to fall back to stdint.h, and it could be undefined for the MSVC build.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 285250
nosy: rdb
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python 3.6 unnecessarily requires inttypes.h
versions: Python 3.6

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