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Author	mhammond
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, mhammond, wrohdewald
Date	2011-04-02.06:52:30
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Message-id	<1301727151.28.0.539224220325.issue11717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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As Tim Roberts says on the python-win32 list: > Actually, on closer examination, it may be a bit difficult to sell this. The Microsoft compilers do not define this symbol at all. The SDK defines SSIZE_T (as a long). Nothing defines ssize_t. http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-win32/11231/ for the full post. So yeah, the conclusion is that we shouldn't define such symbols incase someone else does too. So conceptually I'm +1 on that patch (I'm yet to try it and probably will not get a chance for a week or 2)

As Tim Roberts says on the python-win32 list:

> Actually, on closer examination, it may be a bit difficult to sell this.  The Microsoft compilers do not define this symbol at all.  The SDK defines SSIZE_T (as a long).  Nothing defines ssize_t. 

http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-win32/11231/ for the full post.

So yeah, the conclusion is that we shouldn't define such symbols incase someone else does too.  So conceptually I'm +1 on that patch (I'm yet to try it and probably will not get a chance for a week or 2)

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