Re: Pyrex bindings with python2.7

[Mark E. <ma...@mp...>]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:02 +0200, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
> On 19/10/10 10:06, David Eriksson wrote:
> > If I remember correctly, DATE is one of the types in synce_types.h,
> > which are meant to have the same name and declaration as in Microsoft
> > Windows. Changing it in libsynce will diverge from that and also means
> > changing librapi2 and many tools and applications that depend on that
> > library.
> >
> > It would probably be better to hide the Python declaration of DATE
> > with some #define/#undef magic... :-)
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David Eriksson
> > http://www.divideandconquer.se/
> Luckily, the python declaration was just a #define, so it can be #undef'd.
> This isn't an issue with python2.6 or before, even with gcc 4.5.1, btw.
> 
> Here's a patch for libsynce that allows building the python rapi2 and
> rra bindings again.
> 

That's remarkably inconvenient of them. Can you see where DATE is
defined in python, and what it is defined to ? Redefining it is fine for
our code, but we might break something else in the bindings.

> Does it make sense?
> 
> Regards,
> Tejas
> 
> Index: libsynce-0.15/lib/synce_types.h
> ===================================================================
> --- libsynce-0.15.orig/lib/synce_types.h
> +++ libsynce-0.15/lib/synce_types.h
> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ typedef uint64_t  ULARGE_INTEGER;
>  
> 
>  /* XXX: sizeof(double) must be 8 */
> +//Python2.7 defines DATE as a macro in /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h
> +#undef DATE
>  typedef double    DATE;
>  
>  /*
> 
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