Aha, so that is the rationale. Because the export table on unix is so generous, we force ourselves to be generous on windows too? I did some unix programming back in the day. IRIX, actually (a Sys V derivative). I'm pretty sure we had to explicitly specify our .so exports. But I might be mistaken.
K > -----Original Message----- > From: python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames....@python.org > [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames....@python.org] On > Behalf Of "Martin v. Löwis" > Sent: 24. apríl 2012 07:28 > To: Mark Shannon > Cc: Python Dev > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] What do PyAPI_FUNC & PyAPI_DATA mean? > Even though it's strictly needed on Windows, and strictly only for API that we > do want to expose, we apply it to all API that is public on Unix (i.e. all Py* > API), in order to avoid API being available on Unix but not on Windows. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
