[issue3625] test issues on 64bit windows

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Thu Aug 21 15:29:30 CEST 2008


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Mark, that check looks fragile:

+IS32BIT = sys.maxint == 0x7fffffff and "64 bit" not in sys.version

Why don't you check for sys.maxsize instead? By construction,
sys.maxsize should give you the pointer width (minus the sign bit ;-)).

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