[Python-Dev] New Unicode Snapshot

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Should I add these, Guido ? -- I'd rather stick with predefined
> macros than cook my own.

> The AC_C_INLINE would be esp. interesting here:

> I think this could be used a lot for those tiny function which
> just apply a type check and then return some object attribute
> value.

umm.  since inline isn't really part of ANSI C, that
means that you'll end up having possibly non-inlined
code in header files, right?

(I use inline agressively inside modules, except for
really critical things that absolutely definitively must
be inlined -- look in PIL to see what I mean...)

> The AC_C_CONST frightens me a bit: the Unicode code uses "const"
> a lot to make sure compilers can do the right optimizations. Are
> there compilers out there which do not handle "const" correctly ?

not sure about this; I just copied the list from PIL, and
should probably have left this one out.

I've don't think I've ever used it, and afaik, 1.6 will no longer
support non-ANSI compilers anyway...

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