CTypes on a 64 bit machine truncates pointers to 32 bits?

Ron Garret rNOSPAMon at flownet.com
Thu Sep 18 21:21:21 EDT 2008


CTypes on a 64-bit machine appears to be truncating pointers to 32 bits:

[ron at monster1:~]$ uname -a
Linux monster1 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 22:30:01 UTC 2008 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
[ron at monster1:~]$ cat foo.c
void* foo(void* x) { return x; }
[ron at monster1:~]$ gcc -fPIC -shared foo.c -o foo.so
[ron at monster1:~]$ file foo.so
foo.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not 
stripped
[ron at monster1:~]$ python
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Jul 23 2008, 18:15:29) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ctypes import *
>>> foolib = cdll.LoadLibrary('foo.so')
>>> foolib.foo(0xF00000000)
0
>>> sizeof(c_void_p)
8
>>> 

I am aware of http://bugs.python.org/issue1703286 but I get the same 
result in Python2.5.2:

[ron at monster1:~]$ py252/bin/python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 18 2008, 10:48:29) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ctypes import *
>>> foolib = cdll.LoadLibrary('foo.so')
>>> foolib.foo(0xF00000000)
0
>>> sizeof(c_void_p)
8
>>>



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