predefined-variables

__LP64__ on Windows?

I know Windows uses LLP instead of the LP data model, but is there a predefined variable or something? on OS X/Linux you can use __LP64__. ...

What did Perl's $* variable used to do?

I have some code from http://www.hyllander.org/node/23 that uses $* ("dollar asterisk" or "dollar star"), but my version of perl reports: $* is no longer supported at migrate.pl line 284. Do you know what were the side-effects of doing $*=1 Did that somehow affect functions like split or tokenizers or regular expressions? ...

[Python] Pre declared dictionary size limit?

I have a big dictionary i constantly reference in my code so i have it initialized at the top: import ... myDictionary = {'a':'avalue','b':'bvalue',...} code ... But when i try to get values, some of the keys are not found. It appears as though Python is chopping my dictionary due to a size limit. I tried searching google but could...