64-bit EPIC and some modules

[Michael Hudson]

Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <tzot at sil-tec.gr> writes:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:28:25 GMT, rumours say that Michael Hudson
> <mwh at python.net> might have written:
> 
> >I may be wrong, but I thought that audioop and imageop only work in a
> >32 bit environment.
> 
> I found an old post by Guido (1998) asking for testers in 64-bit
> environments; it seems that the work he did then (and perhaps some later
> work by him or others) gave fruit.
> 
> I checked the source (of audioop at least), and there are some #ifdef
> code at the start of it, assuring the type used in calculations is 4
> bytes long.
> The tests ran fine! :)

Oh, fine.  You'll probably have to dig into setup.py to find why
they're not building on itanium -- not having one, it's not the sort
of thing I can really motivate myself about :-)

Cheers,
mwh
PS: hp-ux/itanium appears to be utterly horked...

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