[Python-Dev] Who understands _ssl.c on Windows?

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

> _Perhaps_ it's the case that doubles are aligned to an 8-byte boundary
> when socketmodule.c is compiled, but (for some unknown reason) only to
> a 4-byte boundary when _ssl.c is compiled.  Although that seems to
> match the details in the bug report, I have no theory for how that
> could happen (I don't see any MS packing pragmas anywhere).

Well, poking a bit reveals that _ssl and _socket are built by quite
different mechanisms: _socket by a .vcproj but _ssl by "_ssl.mak".  I
don't see anything overly suspicious in _ssl.mak, but I don't really
know much about Windows compiler options...

Cheers,
mwh

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