On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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. > Fair > > 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. > > Good to know. Too bad there still are libraries not supporting Python 3. Thanks. > 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/prouleau001%40gmail.com > -- /Pierre
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