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

[Thomas Wouters]

On 5/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
> Neal Norwitz wrote:
> > minus comments, etc  yields several questions about whether some
> > values should use Py_ssize_t rather than C longs.  In particular:
>
> > * ints:  Include/intobject.h:    long ob_ival;
>
> As Tim says, this is way out of scope for 2.5. Guido said it is ok
> to change this to 64-bit ints in 2.6, but I expect some embedded
> system developers will start screaming when they hear that: 64-bit
> arithmetic is expensive on a 32-bit machine.


Well, those systems shouldn't have a 64-bit Py_ssize_t anyway, should they?

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