Remove integers_runme.ss because Chicken does not test for integer overflow

Fixes to get apply_strings.i to work in the testsuite
Minor documentation updates


git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk/SWIG@9170 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22

CHANGES.current

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Version 1.3.30 (in progress)
 ============================
 
+06/20/2006: wuzzeb (John Lenz)
+	    [Chicken]
+            Minor fixes to get apply_strings.i testsuite to pass
+	    Remove integers_runme.scm from the testsuite, because SWIG and Chicken does
+            handle overflows.
+
 06/17/2006: olly
 	    [php] Added some missing keywords to the PHP4 keyword list, and
 	    fixed __LINE__ and __FILE__ which were in the wrong category.

Doc/Manual/Chicken.html

@@ -548,7 +548,9 @@ all the modules.</p>
           <a href="SWIGPlus.html#SWIGPlus_default_args">%feature(compactdefaultargs)</a>.</li>
     </ul>
 
-    <p>TinyCLOS has a limitation such that generic methods do not properly work on methods
+<h3><a name="Chicken_nn19"></a>18.7.1 TinyCLOS problems with Chicken version &lt;= 1.92</h3>
+
+    <p>In Chicken versions equal to or below 1.92, TinyCLOS has a limitation such that generic methods do not properly work on methods
     with different number of specializers: TinyCLOS assumes that every method added to a generic function
     will have the same number of specializers. SWIG generates functions with different lengths of specializers
     when C/C++ functions are overloaded.  For example, the code</p>
@@ -571,13 +573,12 @@ int foo(int a);
 <p>Using unpatched TinyCLOS, the second <code>(define-method)</code> will replace the first one,
 so calling <code>(foo 3 f)</code> will produce an error.</p>
 
-<p>There are two solutions to this: the
+<p>There are three solutions to this.  The easist is to upgrade to the latest Chicken version.  Otherwise, the
 file <tt>Lib/chicken/tinyclos-multi-generic.patch</tt> in the SWIG source contains a patch against
-tinyclos.scm inside the chicken source to add support into TinyCLOS for multi-argument generics.
+tinyclos.scm inside the 1.92 chicken source to add support into TinyCLOS for multi-argument generics.  (This patch was accepted into Chicken)
 This requires chicken to be rebuilt and custom install of chicken.  An alternative is the <tt>Lib/chicken/multi-generic.scm</tt>
 file in the SWIG source.  This file can be loaded after TinyCLOS is loaded, and it will override some functions
-inside TinyCLOS to correctly support multi-argument generics.  This solution will work on any install of chicken.
-Please see the comments at the top of both files for more information.</p>
+inside TinyCLOS to correctly support multi-argument generics.  Please see the comments at the top of both files for more information.</p>
 
   </body>
 </html>

Examples/test-suite/chicken/integers_runme.ss

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-(load "integers.so")
-(define-macro (throws-exception? form)
-  `(condition-case (begin ,form #f)
-     ((exn) #t)))
-
-(include "../schemerunme/integers.scm")

Lib/chicken/chicken.swg

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ SIMPLE_TYPEMAP(double, C_c_double, C_flonum, C_swig_is_number, (double), C_SIZEO
     $result = C_SCHEME_FALSE;
   } 
   else {
-    int string_len = strlen ($1);
+    int string_len = strlen ((char *) ($1));
     C_word *string_space = C_alloc (C_SIZEOF_STRING (string_len));
     $result = C_string (&string_space, string_len, s);
   }

Lib/chicken/multi-generic.scm

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+;; This file is no longer neccissary with Chicken versions avove 1.92
+;; 
 ;; This file overrides two functions inside TinyCLOS to provide support
 ;; for multi-argument generics.  There are many ways of linking this file
 ;; into your code... all that needs to happen is this file must be