Merge pull request #452 from ngladitz/lua-char-typemap

lua: push characters as unformatted 1-character strings

Examples/test-suite/chartest.i

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+%module chartest
+
+%inline %{
+char printable_global_char = 'a';
+char unprintable_global_char = 0x7F;
+
+char GetPrintableChar() {
+  return 'a';
+}
+
+char GetUnprintableChar() {
+  return 0x7F;
+}
+
+%}

Examples/test-suite/common.mk

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ CPP_TEST_CASES += \
 	casts \
 	char_binary \
 	char_strings \
+	chartest \
 	class_forward \
 	class_ignore \
 	class_scope_weird \

Examples/test-suite/lua/chartest_runme.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require("import")   -- the import fn
+import("chartest")   -- import code
+
+function char_assert(char, code)
+  assert(type(char) == 'string')
+  assert(char:len() == 1)
+  assert(char:byte() == code)
+end
+
+char_assert(chartest.GetPrintableChar(), 0x61)
+char_assert(chartest.GetUnprintableChar(), 0x7F)
+
+char_assert(chartest.printable_global_char, 0x61)
+char_assert(chartest.unprintable_global_char, 0x7F)