Re: [pygccxml-development] ssize_t in __convenience.pypp.hpp

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On 10/16/06, Matthias Baas <ba...@ir...> wrote:
> Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> > On 10/16/06, Matthias Baas <ba...@ir...> wrote:
> >> v1.33.1
> >
> > I am using "current cvs" and this is explains the problem. Is this an
> > option to switch to "current cvs"? It contains a lot of fixes.
>
> I'd rather postpone that until I really have to upgrade. It's quite a
> bit of work to do so (as I would have to compile & install it for
> several OSs and Python versions).
>
> > I will think about work around to the problem. You are welcome to
> > propose your solution too.
>
> I'm not sure how this is best dealt with. I have too little experience
> with that (and I don't have a 64bit machine available). I suppose
> whatever "automatic" solution we choose there should probably also be a
> way for the user to override this mechanism and manually provide the
> type he'd like to use.

I don't understand why, it seems to me that Python API forces us to use
some concrete type. I will check that, for a while I think it should be okay to
use int instead of ssize_t.
( I don't have time to investigate and solve this problem :-( )
I committed simple patch that temporally fix the problem
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Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
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