[Python-Dev] int vs ssize_t in unicode

Thu Apr 13 07:44:26 CEST 2006

Martin,
In Include/ucnhash.h I notice some integers and wonder if those should
be Py_ssize_t. It looks like they are just names so they should be
pretty short.
But in Objects/unicodeobject.c, I notice a bunch of ints and casts to
int and wonder if they should be changed to Py_ssize_t/removed:
235:
 assert(length<INT_MAX);
 unicode->length = (int)length;
376, 404:
 int i;
1366: (seems like this could be a 64-bit value)
 int nneeded;
(i stopped at this point, there are probably more)
Modules/unicodedata.c (lots of ints, not sure if they are a problem)
494:
 isize = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(input);
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