Re: ssize_t vs win64

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 00:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On lör, 2010-01-02 at 16:29 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 16:23, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> > On lör, 2010-01-02 at 15:42 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >> When trying to build plpython on win64, it fails because ssize_t is
>> >> defined differently.
>> >>
>> >> PostgreSQL has it as
>> >> typedef long ssize_t;
>> >>
>> >> And python has it as:
>> >> typedef __int64 ssize_t;
>> >
>> > What file/line is that?  I don't see that in my copies.
>>
>> You mean in python? It's in  pyconfig.h, line 205 (the version
>> manually maintained for non-autoconf platforms). The version I have
>> is:
>> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 07:36:50) [MSC v.1500 64 bit
>> (AMD64)] on win32
>
> Seems kind of buggy.  They shouldn't be defining it at all.

Why not? Should they just stop using it? In that case, so should we, no?

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