[Python-Dev] staticforward

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:31:48 +0200


Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>>>>>>"MAL" == mal  <M.-A.> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>   MAL> Yes. The test doesn't seem to catch the case of having arrays
>   MAL> being declared as static forward. If you look in configure.in
>   MAL> you'll find that the test code only checks whether struct
>   MAL> behave well.
> 
> Then you'll be no better off if we leave the test in.  I expect you
> don't actually have a problem.  On the off chance that you do, you've
> already got all the ifdef trickery you need in your own .h file.

Except that I don't know on which other platforms I'd have to
enable it... and no, I don't want to go through another
two years of user feedback to find out !

What are you after here ? Remove the configure.in test as well ?

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