[Numpy-discussion] scalarmathmodule changes broke MSVC build; patch available

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello all

Some changes to scalarmathmodule.c.src have broken the build with at least
MSVC 7.1. The generated .c contains code like this:

static PyObject *
cfloat_power(PyObject *a, PyObject *b, PyObject *c)
{
    PyObject *ret;
    cfloat arg1, arg2, out;
#if 1
    cfloat out1;
       out1.real = out.imag = 0;
#else
     cfloat out1=0;
#endif
    int retstatus;

As far as I know, this is not valid C. Ticket with patch here:

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/96

By the way, how about setting up buildbot so that we can avoid these
problems in future? I'd be very happy to maintain build slaves for a few
Windows configurations.

Regards,

Albert