From 09d047285c4363da81fdcde7c9f72b670c162935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Beazley <dave-swig@dabeaz.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:01:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix to constant handling.

git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk@4493 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22
---
 SWIG/Source/Modules/lang.cxx | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SWIG/Source/Modules/lang.cxx b/SWIG/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
index 4b90f04d7..812927358 100644
--- a/SWIG/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
+++ b/SWIG/Source/Modules/lang.cxx
@@ -404,11 +404,16 @@ int Language::constantDirective(Node *n) {
     if (!value) {
       value = Copy(name);
     } else {
-      if (checkAttribute(n,"type","char")) {
+      /*      if (checkAttribute(n,"type","char")) {
 	value = NewString(value);
       } else {
 	value = NewStringf("%(escape)s", value);
       }
+      */
+      Setattr(n,"rawvalue",value);
+      value = NewStringf("%(escape)s", value);
+      if (!Len(value)) Append(value,"\\0");
+      /*      Printf(stdout,"'%s' = '%s'\n", name, value); */
     }
     Setattr(n,"value", value);
     this->constantWrapper(n);