Python platforms without long long

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Oct 8 11:59:11 EDT 2017


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usenet3 at hjp.at> wrote:
> I just stumbled about this note in
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html:
>
> | 2. The 'q' and 'Q' type codes are available only if the platform C
> | compiler used to build Python supports C long long, or, on Windows,
> | __int64.
> |
> | New in version 3.3.
>
> The long long type was standardized in C99 (and was a popular extension
> before that). Python 3.3 was released in 2012 - 13 years later. Were any
> of the supported platforms of Python3 really still missing this type at
> that time?

At what point did MSVC support long long? That's usually the guiding
factor with C standard usage.

ChrisA



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