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Author	georg.brandl
Recipients	Jason.Vas.Dias, georg.brandl, r.david.murray
Date	2011-04-29.11:38:08
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Message-id	<1304077088.74.0.564251150246.issue11946@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Jason, that the dl module requires sizeof(int) == sizeof(char *) does not mean that it (or we) thinks this to be true on every platform. Rather, the module is written in a way that requires this equality, and rather than crashing it does this check beforehand. As you may have noticed, the dl module is deprecated anyway in favor of ctypes, and removed in Python 3.x.

Jason, that the dl module requires sizeof(int) == sizeof(char *) does not mean that it (or we) thinks this to be true on every platform.  Rather, the module is written in a way that requires this equality, and rather than crashing it does this check beforehand.

As you may have noticed, the dl module is deprecated anyway in favor of ctypes, and removed in Python 3.x.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-04-29 11:38:08	georg.brandl	set	recipients: + georg.brandl, r.david.murray, Jason.Vas.Dias
2011-04-29 11:38:08	georg.brandl	set	messageid: <1304077088.74.0.564251150246.issue11946@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-04-29 11:38:08	georg.brandl	link	issue11946 messages
2011-04-29 11:38:08	georg.brandl	create