[Zope-dev] Linux x86_64 [Was: Zope Tests: 3 OK, 5 Failed]

[Andreas Jung]

On 08.08.09 14:19, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Martijn Pieters<mj at zopatista.com> wrote:
>   
>> The following checkin fixed this particular problem:
>>
>>  http://svn.zope.org/Acquisition/trunk/src/Acquisition/_Acquisition.c?rev=102564&view=rev
>>
>> The acquisition slice wrapper accepted Py_ssize_t arguments, but then
>> passed these of as C ints (format string 'i'). Changing the format
>> string to 'n' (Py_ssize_t) fixed *this particular case*. Likely more
>> such fixes must be made.
>>     
> One thing to note here is that the above change is indeed only of of
> probably many that need to be made to support 64-bit platforms
> properly. The other thing to note is that the change now introduces a
> hard requirement on Python 2.5 or later.
>
> Neither Martijn nor me could figure out a way to make the function
> calls to Build have different format identifier arguments dependent on
> the Python version. On Python 2.4 there is only "i" for integer and
> 2.5 introduces "n" for Py_ssize_t. Since this is an argument to a
> function showing up in various combinations of "nn", "nO" and others,
> there seems to be no easy way to make this work.
>
> Someone with more knowledge about pre-processor tricks might come up
> with a solution to this, otherwise we will have to choose between
> dropping 64-bit support or dropping the unofficial Python 2.4 support.
>   

Dropping 64-bit support is no option, dropping Python 2.4 support is :)

Adreas
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