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-rw-r--r--Include/longintrepr.h9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Include/longintrepr.h b/Include/longintrepr.h
index 89ba586..abf8640 100644
--- a/Include/longintrepr.h
+++ b/Include/longintrepr.h
@@ -36,11 +36,14 @@ typedef BASE_TWODIGITS_TYPE stwodigits; /* signed variant of twodigits */
digit) is never zero. Also, in all cases, for all valid i,
0 <= ob_digit[i] <= MASK.
The allocation function takes care of allocating extra memory
- so that ob_digit[0] ... ob_digit[abs(ob_size)-1] are actually available. */
+ so that ob_digit[0] ... ob_digit[abs(ob_size)-1] are actually available.
+
+ CAUTION: Generic code manipulating subtypes of PyVarObject has to
+ aware that longs abuse ob_size's sign bit.
+*/
struct _longobject {
- PyObject_HEAD
- int ob_size;
+ PyObject_VAR_HEAD
digit ob_digit[1];
};