Old bug in longobject.c + fix
Duncan Booth
duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk
Tue Aug 20 03:49:13 EDT 2002
"Jochen Küpper" <jochen at jochen-kuepper.de> wrote in
news:mailman.1029821790.7317.python-list at python.org:
> Duncan> On many systems you can expect the C types unsigned short to
> Duncan> be 16 bits, unsigned int 32 bits and unsigned long 32 bits.
> Duncan> When this is the case, the cast has no detectable effect.
> Duncan> Therefore on most systems the bug is completely undetectable.
>
> But then there are systems around for ages where unsigned long is 64
> bit... And python seems to run happily on them:))
Yes, but in the words of another poster, I thought it was 'pretty damn
obvious' that the code worked when int or long was 64 bit, so I didn't
bother to mention that fact. :-)
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