[Python-Dev] Modules of plat-* directories

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:04:38 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 17 octobre 2011 01:16:36, Victor Stinner a écrit :
> > For example, IN.INT_MAX is 2147483647, whereas it should
> > be 9223372036854775807 on my 64-bit Linux.
> 
> Oops, wrong example: INT_MAX is also 2147483647 on 64 bits. I mean 
> IN.LONG_MAX.
> 
> IN.LONG_MAX is always 9223372036854775807 on Linux, on 32 and 64 bits systems.

Given the issues you are mentioning, and given they were never
reported in years before, it seems unlikely anybody is using these
files.

+1 to remove them, as they don't seem documented either.

Regards

Antoine.