Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes: Configurable bitfield allocation strategy

2011-07-10 Thread Vlad Riscutia 
Opened http://bugs.python.org/issue12528 to track this.

Thank you,
Vlad

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Vlad Riscutia wrote:

> Well it's not really layout, because alignment is handled by pack option.
> It is how the field gets allocated. At this point I believe it will be more
> complex to come up with custom allocation option, precisely because it's up
> to each compiler to allocate the structure. Such flexibility will add a lot
> of complexity and it might not payoff. This is debatable, but I would go
> with a 3 option strategy at this point - native, GCC, MSVC and if we
> actually find interop issues with other compilers we can look into custom
> allocation.
>
> I will try to refactor the C code to more easily accommodate a mode option
> (while leaving behavior the same for now), then we can decide how the
> library interface should look like.
>
> Thank you,
> Vlad
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Greg Ewing 
> wrote:
>
>> Vlad Riscutia wrote:
>>
>>> Longer term though, I think it would be better to add a property on the
>>> Structure class for configurable allocation strategy, for example Native
>>> (default), GCC, MSVC
>>>
>>
>> It could also be good to have a mode which lets you specify
>> *exactly* how the bits are laid out, independent of any
>> particular compiler.
>>
>> --
>> Greg
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