Ryan Coyner <rcoy...@gmail.com> added the comment:
You don't want to do c_size_t = c_void_p because that will prevent type
checking. We want c_size_t to be integers; setting it to c_void_p will accept
other values. The lines that define c_size_t are doing a sizeof check to
determine how many bits the CPU supports, and c_size_t should represent
unsigned integers [1].
On a 16-bit machine: c_size_t = c_uint
On a 32-bit machine: c_size_t = c_ulong
On a 64-bit machine: c_size_t = c_ulonglong
Now, ssize_t is like size_t, except that it is signed [2]. So if I am not
mistaken, all we have to do is:
if sizeof(c_uint) == sizeof(c_void_p):
c_size_t = c_uint
c_ssize_t = c_int
elif sizeof(c_ulong) == sizeof(c_void_p):
c_size_t = c_ulong
c_ssize_t = c_long
elif sizeof(c_ulonglong) == sizeof(c_void_p):
c_size_t = c_ulonglong
c_ssize_t = c_longlong
Patch attached with documentation and unit test.
[1] -
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Important-Data-Types.html
[2] - http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/I_002fO-Primitives.html
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keywords: +patch
nosy: +rcoyner
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16405/issue6729.patch
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