Re: ssize_t vs win64 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: ssize_t vs win64
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Msg-id 9837222c1001021524o132765fah7670df67dbf81a4a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ssize_t vs win64  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: ssize_t vs win64  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: ssize_t vs win64  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 00:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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@gmx.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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