Avoid errors due to generating identical overloads

Add typecheck typemaps for primitive types and string and call
Swig_overload_check() to ensure that we don't generate two wrappers
functions taking the same "const char*" type if we have overloads taking
it and "std::string" (or a reference) in the original code.

Lib/c/c.swg

@@ -239,6 +239,90 @@ same_action_all_primitive_types(out, "$result = $1;", "$result = *$1;")
     $result = ($1_ltype) 0;
 }
 
+/* Typecheck typemaps - The purpose of these is merely to issue a warning for overloaded C++ functions
+ * that cannot be overloaded in the wrappers as more than one C++ type maps to a single C type */
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_BOOL)
+    bool,
+    const bool &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_CHAR)
+    char,
+    const char &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_INT8)
+    signed char,
+    const signed char &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_UINT8)
+    unsigned char,
+    const unsigned char &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_INT16)
+    short,
+    const short &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_UINT16)
+    unsigned short,
+    const unsigned short &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_INT32)
+    int,
+    long,
+    const int &,
+    const long &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_UINT32)
+    unsigned int,
+    unsigned long,
+    const unsigned int &,
+    const unsigned long &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_INT64)
+    long long,
+    const long long &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_UINT64)
+    unsigned long long,
+    const unsigned long long &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_FLOAT)
+    float,
+    const float &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_DOUBLE)
+    double,
+    const double &
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_STRING)
+    char *,
+    char *&,
+    char[ANY],
+    char[]
+    ""
+
+%typecheck(SWIG_TYPECHECK_POINTER)
+    SWIGTYPE,
+    SWIGTYPE *,
+    SWIGTYPE &,
+    SWIGTYPE &&,
+    SWIGTYPE *const&,
+    SWIGTYPE [],
+    SWIGTYPE (CLASS::*)
+    ""
+
 #ifdef SWIG_CPPMODE
 
 %insert("runtime") %{

Lib/c/std_string.i

@@ -64,4 +64,8 @@ class string;
   $result = strdup(cppresult->c_str());
 %}
 
+// This is required to warn about clashes between the overloaded functions
+// taking strings and raw pointers in the generated wrappers.
+%typemap(typecheck) string, const string &, string *, string & = char *;
+
 }

Source/Modules/c.cxx

@@ -402,6 +402,14 @@ public:
     if (Checkattr(n, "storage", "friend"))
       return;
 
+    // Usually generating wrappers for overloaded methods is fine, but sometimes their types can clash after applying typemaps and in this case we have no
+    // choice but to avoid generating them, as otherwise we'd just generate uncompilable code.
+    if (Getattr(n, "sym:overloaded")) {
+      Swig_overload_check(n);
+      if (Getattr(n, "overload:ignore"))
+	return;
+    }
+
     temp_ptr_setter<Node*> set(&node_func_, n);
 
     // As mentioned elsewhere, we can't use Swig_storage_isstatic() here because the "storage" attribute is temporarily saved in another view when this