[Python-Dev] suggest pyportable.h (was: Make _GNU_SOURCE default for gcc ?!)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:45:05AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >... GNU_SOURCE ...
> 
> Seems fine, and I can't see how it would hurt.
> 
> +1
> 
> > BTW, I'm +1 on adding a mylimits.h to Python.h too. mylimits.h
> > would then either include the system's limits.h file or provide
> > workarounds for platforms which don't have it. Then we could drop
> > the #define INT_MAX which can be found in several Python C files.
> 
> Euh... we should probably stop creating myfoo.h every time we want to
> replace some "foo" header.
> 
> It would be much nicer to simply create "pyportable.h" and have it include
> the various pieces when available or to create suitable defaults for them.
> There would be a companion pyportable.c to define replacement functions.
> 
> Continuing to litter the Python source area with a bunch of little files for
> all the edge cases on the planet... just doesn't make much sense to me. It
> starts to create too much confusion/complexity.

Fine with me... we should probably make it contains all the
different myfoo.h header files.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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