r14663 - gnucash/branches/swigify/src/business - The arguments that point to structs defined in the same module as the

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Shoemaker <chris at cvs.gnucash.org> writes:

>    The arguments that point to structs defined in the same module as the 
>    function being wrapped are typed as taking a pointer to the "real" struct, 
>    not the "public" typedef'd name of the struct.  If functions in other
>    modules use the same pointer arguments, and SWIG isn't told about the
>    typedef to the struct, then these wrappers will be typed with an
>    incompatible generic pointer type with the public type name.
>
>    This commit resolves this by 1) using SWIG's %import directive to see the
>    typedef to the struct name, 2) associated -Imodule lines in Makefile.am, 
>    3) using the mangled form of the real struct name anywhere we need a 
>    runtime type query.  Got it?

So basically what you're saying is that with SWIG you can't use
the public typedef name?  That seems...  Wrong.

-derek

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