[Python-Dev] ssize_t question: longs in header files

[Thomas Wouters]

On 5/29/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> * ints:  Include/intobject.h:    long ob_ival;


I considered asking about this before, as it would give '64-bit power' to
Win64 integers. It's a rather big change, though (lots of code assumes
PyInts fit in signed longs, which would be untrue then.)

On the other hand, if a separate type was used for PyInts (Py_pyint_t or
whatever, defaulting to long, except on LLP64 systems), EWT's request for a
64-bit integer represented by C 'long long's would be a simple configure
switch.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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