[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Objects dictobject.c,2.127,2.128 floatobject.c,2.113,2.114 intobject.c,2.84,2.85 listobject.c,2.120,2.121 longobject.c,1.119,1.120 rangeobject.c,2.42,2.43 stringobject.c,2.169,2.170 tupleobject.c,2.69,2.70 typeobject.c,2.160,2.161 unicodeobject.c,2.155,2.156 xxobject.c,2.20,2.21

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>>>>>>"MAL" == mal  <M.-A.> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>   MAL> The configure script tests whether static forwards work or
>   MAL> not. If you'd rip out the test as well, then I'd have to add
>   MAL> those platforms which still have problems manually.
> 
>   MAL> The problem is: I don't know which platforms these are (because
>   MAL> configure found these itself).
> 
> If you think the configure test works, why do you have platform
> specific ifdefs in your header file?

Because it doesn't always work :-)

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