On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Jack Jansen wrote: > > Frankly, I think that for *any* functions that are in some external > > library (e.g. libc), Python should never provide a function prototype > > at all. The standard headers should provide the prototypes! > They should, but what if they don't? That's what I like about the > pyport.h: it allows Python to build out of the box but still keeps all the > cruft needed because some platforms don't have their act together in a > single place. I know that I'm not expected to understand sections of > pyport.h that are for platforms I'm not familiar with... That's kind-of what I wrote in my reply to Guido. There is only one problem with this, though, and that's finding platform-identifying #defines. I don't have enough experience with portable software to assume anything, and I unable to find anything identifying the platform on the one Solaris 2.6 box we have (and don't use, because it's Solaris ;) I haven't tried finding any on the Linux or BSDI boxes we do use, but I think Linux glibc2 is recognizable -- but that's also the system most likely to be up to date ! If anyone can give some hints on identifying platforms, or finding out whether a given prototype is included in the header files, please do :P Until then, I don't think we can do much else with the *current* prototypes than remove them. And if anyone needs those #defines, they'll have to figure out how to uniquely identify their architecture, first. Actually... I think it's possible for autoconf to find out if a prototype is included by trying to take the address of a function... but that's kind of a severe method, and doesn't say anything about what the prototype should look like. And is there really any danger of real bugs being caused by missing prototypes ? Most (well, at least *some*) testing is done on Linux systems, on which I have yet to find a prototype missing from the std. include files. It'll generate some warnings on some other operating systems, but that's all, I think. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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