Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: LLP64 is the model chosen by the Microsoft compiler: sizeof(long)==4.
I suppose someone already considered to change PyIntObject and use size_t values, but IMO it would have broken too many extensions: the pattern "if (PyInt_Check(obj)) value=PyInt_AS_LONG(obj);" is very very common. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13965> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com