[Python-Dev] mingw32 and gc-header weirdness

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jul 24 15:07:54 CEST 2009


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes:
> 
> Roumen Petrov <bugtrack <at> roumenpetrov.info> writes:
> > 
> > Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > > 
> > > In 32-bit mode, no. But under x86-64 Linux, a long double is 16 bytes (!!).
> > 
> > And alignment is ?
> 
> 16 bytes as well.

This is probably why, by the way, a PyGC_Head takes only 12 bytes in 32-bit
mode, but 32 bytes in 64-bit mode.




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