> I downloaded Python64 for Windows Vista64 but the value returned from > sys.maxint is just a 32bit integer. I found out, thats by design, > Microsoft decided to make the long value 32bit. What can I do to > compile python 2.6 with maxint of 64bit integers?
At a minimum, you need to change ob_ival to a 64-bit type in PyIntObject. Consequentially, you probably need to change a lot of other functions, e.g. PyInt_AsLong should probably also return a 64-bit integer (as should PyInt_FromLong accept one). In turn, you will need to change all callers of these functions to adjust their parameter types. And so on. > Can I replace the int values to a int64 value? See above. In short: no. Use a real 64-bit operating system (such as 64-bit Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc) Regards, Martin P.S. I do wonder why you want to do this, though. Isn't Python's long integer type good enough? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
