On Sun, 19 May 2013 19:37:46 -0400 Pierre Rouleau <prouleau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On that topic of bitness for 64-bit platforms, would it not be better for > CPython to be written such that it uses the same 64-bit strategy on all > 64-bit platforms, regardless of the OS? > > As it is now, Python running on 64-bit Windows behaves differently (in > terms of bits for the Python's integer) than it is behaving in other > platforms. I assume that the Python C code is using the type 'long' > instead of something like the C99 int64_t. Since Microsoft is using the > LLP64 model and everyone else is using the LP64, code using the C 'long' > type would mean something different on Windows than Unix-like platforms. > Isn't that unfortunate? Well, it's Microsoft's choice. But from a Python point of view, which C type a Python int maps to is of little relevance. Moreover, the development version is 3.4, and in Python 3 the int type is a variable-length integer type (sys.maxint doesn't exist anymore). So this discussion is largely moot now. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
