Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 54f3c57..0497ae6 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
#include <signal.h>
#endif
+#include "malloc.h" /* for alloca */
+
#ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
#include <locale.h>
#include <langinfo.h>
@@ -1628,9 +1630,21 @@
{
fprintf(stderr, "Fatal Python error: %s\n", msg);
#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
- OutputDebugString("Fatal Python error: ");
- OutputDebugString(msg);
- OutputDebugString("\n");
+ {
+ size_t len = strlen(msg);
+ WCHAR* buffer;
+ size_t i;
+
+ /* Convert the message to wchar_t. This uses a simple one-to-one
+ conversion, assuming that the this error message actually uses ASCII
+ only. If this ceases to be true, we will have to convert. */
+ buffer = alloca( (len+1) * (sizeof *buffer));
+ for( i=0; i<=len; ++i)
+ buffer[i] = msg[i];
+ OutputDebugStringW(L"Fatal Python error: ");
+ OutputDebugStringW(buffer);
+ OutputDebugStringW(L"\n");
+ }
#ifdef _DEBUG
DebugBreak();
#endif