Extensions on Windows, questions for experts.

Martin von Loewis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Wed Jan 16 04:58:34 EST 2002


Michel Van den Bergh <vdbergh at luc.ac.be> writes:

> Well everybody seems to agree that what I am proposing is
> not practical (or at least very difficult) due to the layout of
> the data structures problem. But why does this not seem to be an
> issue in Linux? Maybe I was just lucky up to now?

If the API version is the same, structures won't have changed their
layout. If the API version is the same, you get a warning when
importing the module. After getting this warning, I have seen crashes
on Linux already.

Regards,
Martin




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