From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:07:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF bug #495548:  troublesome #define in pyport.h
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6956
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10a3bb53a868a5f5b08338fc7c3487d955220488;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

SF bug #495548:  troublesome #define in pyport.h
Removed the ancient "#define ANY void".

Bugfix candidate?  Hard call.  The bug report claims the existence of
this #define creates conflicts with other packages, which is easy to
believe.  OTOH, some extension authors may still be relying on its
presence.  I'm afraid you can't win on this one.
---

diff --git a/Include/pyport.h b/Include/pyport.h
index d1acd8ff6a3d..5efdf118d68f 100644
--- a/Include/pyport.h
+++ b/Include/pyport.h
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Used in:  LONG_LONG
 
 
 /* For backward compatibility only. Obsolete, do not use. */
-#define ANY void
 #ifdef HAVE_PROTOTYPES
 #define Py_PROTO(x) x
 #else
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fb9226654fb5..65ee65b9a0a8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ Build
 
 C API
 
+- An old #define of ANY as void has been removed from pyport.h.  This
+  hasn't been used since Python's pre-ANSI days, and the #define has
+  been marked as obsolete since then.  SF bug 495548 says it created
+  conflicts with other packages, so keeping it around wasn't harmless.
+
 - Because Python's magic number scheme broke on January 1st, we decided
   to stop Python development.  Thanks for all the fish!