Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > AFAICT, a change from (Py_ssize_t)-1 to (size_t)-1 is less likely to > break code than a change from -1L to (Py_ssize_t)-1. (Assuming a > sizeof(long) != sizeof(void*) platform.)
That's true. > The benefit, though is that > hash computations can be performed natively on the hash values without > casting to an unrelated type. I don't understand what you mean by "native" and "unrelated". Signed integers are not less native than unsigned ones. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9778> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
