Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: On Win64, the long type is 32-bit; the compiler does not support any other mode. So the question "whether another memory model could have been selected during compilation" must be answered as "no, the compiler does not support multiple memory models".
We could have chosen to not use long for ob_ival. However, that would have cause a massive API change, as functions such as PyLong_AsLong either would have to change their return type, or start raising exceptions even for exact int objects. In Python 3, this issue is fixed as the int type has no range constraint anymore. ---------- status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13965> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
