[Python-Dev] warning in _localemodule.c patch

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:33:59 -0400 (EDT)


>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

  >> The other option is to cast the pointer in the call to free().
  GvR> Sounds like the better solution.

  GvR> Publicly, it's a const.  Privately, you happen to malloc() and
  GvR> free() it.

I'm not sure about the intersection of all the ifdefs.  Is it possible
to execute the new code in the localmodule on Win32?  I was looking at
the first value which is the literal "mbcs", which shouldn't be passed
to free.

Jeremy