diff Include/Python.h @ 31250:dfd0114cf9ec legacy-trunk

There are places in Python which assume bytes have 8-bits. Formalize that a bit by checking the value of UCHAR_MAX in Include/Python.h. There was a check in Objects/stringobject.c. Remove that. (Note that we don't define UCHAR_MAX if it's not defined as the old test did.)
author Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
date Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:31:41 +0000
parents 54ff68e973ee
children e118e4e8e224
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--- a/Include/Python.h	Mon Dec 22 01:33:08 2003 +0000
+++ b/Include/Python.h	Mon Dec 22 16:31:41 2003 +0000
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@
 #error "limits.h is required by std C -- why isn't HAVE_LIMITS_H defined?"
 #endif
 
+#ifndef UCHAR_MAX
+#error "Something's broken.  UCHAR_MAX should be defined in limits.h."
+#endif
+
+#if UCHAR_MAX != 255
+#error "Python's source code currently assumes 8-bit characters."
+#endif
+
 #if defined(__sgi) && defined(WITH_THREAD) && !defined(_SGI_MP_SOURCE)
 #define _SGI_MP_SOURCE
 #endif