[Python-Dev] Changing ob_size to [s]size_t

[Scott Gilbert]

--- Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
>
> Also
> could cause lots of compilation warnings when user code stores the
> result into an int.
>

The compiler won't complain a wink for int pointers passed to varargs
functions.  PyArg_ParseTuple and any format specifiers that have # after
the typecode could be quiet bugs in any extension modules.  This could be
handled in a backwards compatible fashion by adding a new code indicating
ssize_t while leaving '#' as indicating int.



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