Re: [9fans] APE: a further note.

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Fri Apr 16 05:23:38 EDT 2010, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> -T is great. But Python can't be built with it. Python explicitly
> creates functions with type signatures that don't match and this makes
> -T very unhappy.

why would they do that?

> Just a warning: it's good to turn it on, but there are cases where it
> will lead to an error that is not an error (depending on how you
> define error).

of course the type signature is based on the c type, not the
machine type.  in the case of all supported architechtures,
long and int produce the same code.  so, for example,
-T will be unhappy if you say long and mean int,
program won't crash.  but neither will it be portable.

long is now a vestigial type.

- erik