Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> added the comment: > It seems the patch relies on a two's complement representation of integers. > Mark, do you think that's ok?
Yes, the patch depends on two facts -- 8-bit bytes and a two's complement representation of integers. That's why I call it a trick. However, today CPython will not work on other platforms. However, we can wrap macro definition in #if/#else/#end and provide the traditional form (but I don't remember how to test a two's complement representation in compile time). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14923> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
