M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Right, but I don't see the point of each and every
> extension having to go through these hoops when you
> could add support for these checks (including error
> reporting) to the few APIs in question, in particular
> the PyArg_ParseTuple() API.
I don't want to rename the exi
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> What if x64 has a 64-bit value ? How do you catch
>> and process the truncation error ?
>
> We were *both* discussing a scenario where no sizes
> exceed 2**31, right?
Right, but I don't see the point of each and every
extension having to go through
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> What if x64 has a 64-bit value ? How do you catch
> and process the truncation error ?
We were *both* discussing a scenario where no sizes
exceed 2**31, right?
Under such a scenario, this just won't happen.
OTOH, if you were discussing a scenario where sizes
might exceed 2
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> ... and then the type change of that variable propagates
>> throughout the extension.
>
> That depends on the usage of the code. If the variable
> is passed by value, no further changes are necessary.
> If a pointer to the variable is passed, you co
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> ... and then the type change of that variable propagates
> throughout the extension.
That depends on the usage of the code. If the variable
is passed by value, no further changes are necessary.
If a pointer to the variable is passed, you could replace
it with
Py_ssize_t x
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> I don't believe the change is major. It only affects a few extensions,
>>> and for these, it is only a minor change. A single line of changing
>>> will be enough.
>>
>> This is true for all the changes related to parameters passed by
>> value. It is
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>I don't believe the change is major. It only affects a few extensions,
>>and for these, it is only a minor change. A single line of changing
>>will be enough.
>
>
> This is true for all the changes related to parameters passed by
> value. It is not true for output parameter
