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Fri Oct 31 15:54:05 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/083246.html

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> 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.

There's a difference between 'ctypes does not compile or work on my platform'
and 'how to write portable code with ctypes'.

Of course I would very much welcome patches for the first issue,
plus tools or other helpers for the second.

-- 
Thanks,
Thomas

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