diff --git a/Lib/unnamed.swg b/Lib/unnamed.swg
index 71dfd9d40..bc5adb0ee 100644
--- a/Lib/unnamed.swg
+++ b/Lib/unnamed.swg
@@ -20,12 +20,17 @@
 // Activate the following macro for compilers that do not support
 // unnamed template parameters, but where memcpy works.
 //
-//#define SWIG_UNNAMED_USE_MEMCPY
+#define SWIG_UNNAMED_USE_MEMCPY
+//
 //
 #ifdef SWIG_UNNAMED_USE_MEMCPY
-// dangerous assigment, but for enums it should work.
+// "dangerous" assigment, but for enums it should work.
+// it is dangerous because you could get a bad value,
+// but it is safer than "*(T*)(void*)&x = t;", which
+// could produce a seg. fault.
 #define swig_assign_unnamed(eval, val) memcpy(&(eval),&(val), sizeof(eval))
 #else
+// much much safer choice :)
 #define swig_assign_unnamed(eval, val) printf("unnamed member assigment not supported\n")
 #endif
 #else
@@ -33,7 +38,9 @@ template <class T, class V>
 inline
 void swig_assign_unnamed(T& eval, const V& val)
 {
-  eval = static_cast<T>(val);
+  // it 'should' be:  eval = static_cast<T>(val);
+  // but just in case we found a very very old compiler
+  eval = (T)val;
 }
 #endif
 #else