[Python-Dev] Documenting the ssize_t Python C API changes
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Mar 21 18:51:03 CET 2006
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> There are two improvements you could make:
> - Some of the functions in the first list return Py_ssize_t; calling
> them can cause truncation if the result value is larger than INT_MAX
> (and it is assigned to an int). To find those functions, do
> grep 'PyAPI_FUNC(Py_ssize_t)' Include/*.h
fixed (based on the list MAL just posted).
> - Usage of the "old" function pointer type name (e.g. intobjargproc)
> likely also indicates an error, since many of these pointers have
> changed there types. I believe the only exception for this is inquiry,
> which still has legit uses, in nb_nonzero, tp_clear, and tp_is_gc.
is there a complete list of these somewhere ?
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