[Python-Dev] unicode vs buffer (array) design issue can crash interpreter

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Neal Norwitz wrote:
>> I'll leave this decision to Martin or someone else, since I'm not
>> familiar with the ramifications.  Since it was documented as unsigned,
>> I think it's reasonable to consider changing.  Though it could create
>> signed-ness warnings in other modules.  I'm not sure but it's possible
>> it could create problems for C++ compilers since they are pickier.
> 
> My concern is not so much that it becomes unsigned in 2.4.4, but that
> it stops being a typedef for wchar_t on Linux. C++ code that uses that
> assumption might stop compiling.

I'd argue that such code is broken anyway: 3rd party code simply
cannot make any assumptions on the typedef behind Py_UNICODE.

Note that you'd only see this change when compiling Python in the
non-standard UCS4 setting on Linux.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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