Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:
> Adding a warning sounds like a good idea. Is it reasonable to include
> a recommended cross-platform approach in the platform doc, like either
> the sys.maxsize test or the struct.calsize("P") test (which is used as
> a default fallback in platform.architecture)?
Yes.
> Are there any currently supported platforms where either of those
> wouldn't work?
No. I think even on fringe platforms it is unlikely for size_t to not
reflect the native pointer width (although it is theoretically
possible).
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