[Python-Dev] FW: 64-bit port of Python

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:24:07 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Trent Mick wrote:
>...
> Unfortunately, the couple of examples that I picked to show that some
> improper sizeof() assumptions still existed in the code included the id()
> function. I did not mean to dwell on id() but rather that I thought it would
> be reasonable that the Python core should run identically on (A) Trillian
> (Linux64) on itanium (Intel64) and on (B) Win64 on itanium. Maybe not.

Not a problem. If you find more, then please bring them up! As I mentioned
before, Python has been running on 64-bit platforms for at least three
years (at Microsoft, we had to get it running on the Alpha in Fall, 1996,
so that we could ship Microsoft Merchant Server 1.0). Apparently, we never
used the id() function :-)  So... if you find anything, then they're bugs
to be fixed!

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/