On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Tim Peters wrote:

> [Raymond, says test_glob and test_urllib fail on WinME now]
>
> [Andrew MacIntyre]
> >> I don't see any possible way for those checkins to affect any platform
> >> other than OS/2.
> >>
> >> 2 of the files are platform specific files (PC/os2emx/getpath.c,
> >> PC/os2vacpp/getpath.c), and the checkin to Modules/posixmodule.c is
> >> contained within a platform specific #if/#endif:
>
> [Brett]
> > Perhaps, but if you look at line 3299 you will notice that a comment is 
> > started
> > but not closed off before the next comment on line 3304.  How is that 
> > comment
> > supposed to be closed off?
>
> That's obviously a bug, and was introduced by the patch.  Andrew wanted
>
>       /* setup the pipe */
>
> not
>
>       /* setup the pipe

Fair cop guv.

Long exposure to a language with comments of the latter form has been a
PITA at times. :-(

> But we don't get there unless PYOS_OS2 and PYCC_VACPP are defined, so
> that can't explain Raymond's problem.
>
> FWIW, the  tests at issue pass on WinXP for me today w/ current CVS.

Good, though Raymond's report appeared to be focussed on the 2.3 branch.

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