On Thu, 22 May 2008, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> > I would say that writing portable C code is hard as well, aren't there
> > just more tools that help?
>
> The C compiler in particular. It already gets symbolic constants and
> struct layouts right, something that ctypes can't do (because it doesn't
> use header files).

I don't think it makes much sense to talk about "The C Compiler" when
you are discussing matters of portability.  Just my $0.02.

-- 
Cheers,
Leif
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