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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, notting
Date	2008-02-22.20:54:29
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Message-id	<1203713670.98.0.325796007127.issue2164@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The limitation is genuine; it's not possible to implement dl_call correctly if sizeof(long) != sizeof(void*), say. Otherwise, it would have been fixed long ago. Use ctypes instead, if that is supported for your hardware. (More generally, it's not possible to implement this at all in portable C, that's why ctypes uses assembler code. That dl works on most "pure" 32-bit systems is by sheer luck)

The limitation is genuine; it's not possible to implement dl_call
correctly if sizeof(long) != sizeof(void*), say. Otherwise, it would
have been fixed long ago. Use ctypes instead, if that is supported for
your hardware. (More generally, it's not possible to implement this at
all in portable C, that's why ctypes uses assembler code. That dl works
on most "pure" 32-bit systems is by sheer luck)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-22 20:54:31	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.0127623 -> 0.012762283 recipients: + loewis, notting
2008-02-22 20:54:31	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.0127623 -> 0.0127623 messageid: <1203713670.98.0.325796007127.issue2164@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-22 20:54:30	loewis	link	issue2164 messages
2008-02-22 20:54:30	loewis	create