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Re: [Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type
by Michael Urman other posts by this author
Jan 6 2006 7:12PM messages near this date

Re: [Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type | Re: [Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type

[I just noticed that I sent this mail to just Martin when I meant it
for the list. Sorry Martin!]

On 1/5/06, "Martin v. LÃ¶wis" <martin@[...].de>  wrote:
>  More precisely, the printf style of function calling, and varargs
>  functions. ISO C is pretty type safe, but with varargs functions,
>  you lose that completely.
> 
>  I still hope I can write a C parser some day that does
>  ParseTuple/BuildValue checking.

I put together a non-parsing checker last month to help me feel more
secure after http://python.org/sf/1365916. It's awful code, but the
simple things are easy to change or extend. Fixing the false positives
and other misinterpretations is harder.

http://www.tortall.net/mu/static/fmtcheck.py?raw - it takes a list of
directories to os.walk for c source files.

Michael
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Michael Urman  http://www.tortall.net/mu/blog
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