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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-06-10 23:40:19 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-06-10 23:40:19 (GMT)
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Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG. Standard mode will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own; I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8). test_struct.py: In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests, got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes). libstruct.tex: In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex
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+++ b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex
@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ C and Python values should be obvious given their types:
\lineiv{h}{\ctype{short}}{integer}{}
\lineiv{H}{\ctype{unsigned short}}{integer}{}
\lineiv{i}{\ctype{int}}{integer}{}
- \lineiv{I}{\ctype{unsigned int}}{long}{(1)}
+ \lineiv{I}{\ctype{unsigned int}}{long}{}
\lineiv{l}{\ctype{long}}{integer}{}
\lineiv{L}{\ctype{unsigned long}}{long}{}
+ \lineiv{q}{\ctype{long long}}{long}{(1)}
+ \lineiv{Q}{\ctype{unsigned long long}}{long}{(1)}
\lineiv{f}{\ctype{float}}{float}{}
\lineiv{d}{\ctype{double}}{float}{}
\lineiv{s}{\ctype{char[]}}{string}{}
@@ -68,10 +70,9 @@ Notes:
\begin{description}
\item[(1)]
- The \character{I} conversion code will convert to a Python long if
- the C \ctype{int} is the same size as a C \ctype{long}, which is
- typical on most modern systems. If a C \ctype{int} is smaller than
- a C \ctype{long}, an Python integer will be created instead.
+ The \character{q} and \character{Q} conversion codes are available in
+ native mode only if the platform C compiler supports C \ctype{long long},
+ or, on Windows, \ctype{__int64}.
\end{description}