platforms with a 64-bit long.
The Alpha/Tru64 test problem is a problem in either tarfile or test_tarfile,
not zlib.
crc32 and adler32 return 32-bit values. by using a long thats larger than
32-bits in these functions they were prevented from wrapping around to their
signed 32-bit value that we want them to return in python 2.x.
which made the return value signed. On the Alpha that also lost data
since sizeof(int) != sizeof(long) and apparently adler32/crc32 return
64 bits of data. This change keeps the signedness and continues to store the
data in a long rather than an int as was the case before r61449.
regardless of the native sizeof(long) used in the integer object.
This somewhat odd behavior of returning a signed is maintained in 2.x for
compatibility reasons of always returning an integer rather than a long object.
Fixes Issue1202 for Python 2.6
extension implemented flush() was fixed. Scott also rewrite the
zlib test suite using the unittest module. (SF bug #640230 and
patch #678531.)
Backport candidate I think.
The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
initialized structure. Standard C allows the forward declaration with
static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers. (In
fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)
I'm leaving staticforward and statichere defined in object.h as
static. This is only for backwards compatibility with C extensions
that might still use it.
XXX I haven't updated the documentation.
