[Python-Dev] Forward declaration of PyObject* values

Tom Emerson tree at basistech.com
Wed Aug 13 17:14:46 EDT 2003


Scott Gilbert writes:
> I used the following for a similar task:
> 
> #ifndef PyObject_HEAD
> struct _object;
> typedef _object PyObject;
> #endif
> 
> Some compilers won't like the incomplete type on the struct, but it looks
> like you're using GCC which should be fine.

Thanks Scott. I'll eventually be on upwards of 11 platforms with this
code, so I'll soon find out what platform compilers don't like this.

    -tree

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