[Numpy-discussion] fwrite() failure in PyArray_ToFile
David Warde-Farley
dwf at cs.toronto.edu
Sat Sep 5 20:40:15 EDT 2009
On 4-Sep-09, at 11:59 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
> The size of long depends on the compiler as well as the operating
> system. On linux x86_64, IIRC, it is 64 bits, on Windows64 I believe
> it is 32. Ints always seem to be 32 bits. But something funny is
> definitely going on. It shouldn't be possible to allocate an array
> bigger than npy_intp, which is a signed number, and the casts to
> size_t and such should be safe. But in anycase, using long in the
> print statement is not portable and needs fixing.
I got him to run a check on that machine and you're correct,
sizeof(long) == 8.
David
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