On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 21:33, "Mark Dickinson" <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:03 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > [...] sizeof(void*) may be > > different from sizeof(cmpfunc*) on some platforms. > Do you know of a platform where this is actually the case? > I don't, so if no-one else does either then there's probably little > point worrying about it. The best reference I could find (besides > the C standards themselves, and in particular section 6.3.2.3 of > the C99 standard) was an ancient and short discussion on > comp.std.c (starting June 21, 1998, subject > "Q: void pointers and function pointers") where some of the > posters claimed to have encountered such platforms. I do know of at least one such platform. Sure it's a bit dated, and probably not relevant for the python development, but definitely not exotic or rare! Don't you rememeber the PC:s in the late 1980th? It was based on Intel's 80286-processor, and Microsoft's C compiler supported three or four different memory models, called things like "TINY", "SMALL", "LARGE", and "HUGE". Most of these memory models had different sized data and function pointers. Niklas Norrthon _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
