[Python-Dev] New Unicode Snapshot

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [M.-A. Lemburg]
> > ...
> > Also new in this snapshot is configuration code which figures
> > out the byte order on the installation machine... I looked
> > everywhere in the Python source code but couldn't find any
> > hint whether this was already done in some place,
>=20
> There's a tiny bit of inline code for this in the "host byte order" =
case of
> structmodule.c's function whichtable.  It's easy to figure out, so =
probably
> better to copy that than create new ifdef symbols for autoconf to =
screw up
> <wink>.

otoh, figuring out the byte order is one of the things
autoconf do very well.  if they're not there already,
Python's autoconf should include the basic "platform
metrics" macros:

AC_HEADER_STDC
AC_C_INLINE
AC_C_BIGENDIAN
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(char)
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(short)
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(float)
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(double)
AC_C_CONST

(think "extension writers", not necessarily "python core")

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