[SciPy-User] SciPy-User Digest, Vol 80, Issue 22

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Scott Ransom <sransom at nrao.edu> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:39:21 am Tom Kuiper wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip Robert.
> >
> > On my 32-bit laptop:
> > In [11]: calcsize('HHHH L HHH L d L H')
> > Out[11]: 38
> >
> > On a 64-bit machine:
> > In [3]: calcsize('HHHH L HHH L d L H')
> > Out[3]: 50
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> That's probably not because of the padding.  It is likely due to the
> fact that longs are 4 bytes on 32-bit machines and 8 bytes on 64-bit
> machines.
>
>
Unless you are using MSVC on 64 bit windows, in which case they are still 32
bits, IIRC.

Chuck
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