[New-bugs-announce] [issue15466] Python/importlib.h is different on 32bit and 64bit

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

New submission from Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com>:

As shown in a patch in issue15431, frozen.c does not output the same data on different platforms.

The first difference looks like this (extracted from the patch):
-    101,73,255,255,255,255,0,0,0,0,40,10,0,0,0,117,
+    101,108,3,0,0,0,255,127,255,127,3,0,40,10,0,0,

On first row, 'I' followed by 0xFFFFFFFF on 8 bytes.
On second row, 'l' followed by 3 followed by 0xFFFFFFFF (in 3 chunks of 15 bits).
The Python number 0xFFFFFFFF is marshalled with TYPE_INT64 when SIZEOF_LONG>4 (Unix 64bit), and with TYPE_LONG on other platforms (32bit, or win64)

The C "long" type has much less importance in 3.x Python, because PyIntObject does not exist anymore.
I suggest to remove this distinction, and allow TYPE_INT64 on all platforms.

I don't see any compatibility issue, on unmarshalling both methods produce the same object.
I'll try to suggest a patch later today.

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messages: 166559
nosy: amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou
priority: high
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python/importlib.h is different on 32bit and 64bit

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