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Subject: Should ctypes handle mis-matching structure return ABI between mingw and MSVC?
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According the Bug 36834 of gcc, there is a mis-matching between mingw 
and MSVC when a struct was returned by value from a C function.

     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36834

Should ctypes handle this situation automatically somehow?

A ctypes discussion on 2009:

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ctypes.user/4439