[Python-Dev] mingw32 and gc-header weirdness

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Jul 25 17:25:01 CEST 2009


> We could add a PY_LONG_LONG to the mix just in case.
> By the way, will this kind of thing be frozen by the PEP ABI?

Yes: alignof(PyGC_HEAD) would be specified as being the maximum
alignment on a platform; sizeof(PyGC_HEAD) would be frozen. The
actual content would not be frozen, i.e. it could be changed in
principle as long as the change would be guaranteed not to affect
the structure size.

Regards,
Martin


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