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Fri Oct 31 14:13:01 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/083241.html

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> If I recall correctly, the main blocker to ctypes portability is libffi
> portability. So if anyone would like to see ctypes on more platforms,
> then that's the limitation they really need to attack.

ctypes is also missing utilities to write code that works on 32 and 
64bit platforms. Without a tool like 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes_configure it's very hard and tedious 
to avoid and fix segfaults.

Christian

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