[Pyrex] Pyrex versus MSVC - problem and (bad) solution

[Greg Ewing]

David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:

>   staticforward char *__pyx_f[0];
> 
> gcc accepts and compiles this just fine.
> 
> But on the dark side, MSVC6 barfs about it being unsized and kills the
> compilation.
> 
> I scammed around it by manually changing the line to:
> 
>   staticforward char **__pyx_f;
> 
> as well as a line further down that repeats the declaration, and all is
> OK.

Thanks for the workaround -- I've been wondering what to do
about this problem! I'll incorporate it into the next release.

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