[Python-Dev] New Unicode Snapshot

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> 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...)

Hmm, it would probably cause code to go into header files --
not really good style but perhaps C++ has leveraged this a
bit recently ;-)
 
> > 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...

Uff, glad you said that :-)

BTW, has anyone tried to compile the Unicode stuff on Windows
yet ?

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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