Michael Abshoff wrote:
> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>> Cython treats sizeof() as if it returns 'int', but IMHO it should be
>> 'size_t'.
>
> Well, you might be technically correct since that is what the C standard
> asks for, but according to various literature, i.e. for example
>
> http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/chapter5/sizeof_and_malloc.html
>
> "The sizeof operator returns the size in bytes of its operand. Whether
> the result of sizeof is unsigned int or unsigned long is implementation
> defined—which is why the declaration of malloc above ducked the issue by
> omitting any parameter information; "
That book appears to have been published in 1991...
Personally, I've found the lack of native size_t knowledge in Cython to
be a major pain. In practice though, the following is sufficient for
every modern system I know of, with the likely exception of Windows:
cdef extern from "sys/types.h":
ctypedef unsigned long size_t
Jason
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