This makes using returning strings much simpler to use from C++ code as
the returned pointers don't have to be deleted manually -- although, of
course, this does require an extra allocation and copy and so should be
avoided for the very long strings.
Add a new runtime test showing how simple and convenient it is to use
the functions working with string using the C++ wrappers now.
Avoid unnecessary heap allocations, just use temporary variables.
Actually update the string parameters passed by pointer/non-const
reference. This requires the pointers passed to actually be non-const,
so update the C-specific unit test runme to use a char buffer instead of
a literal string.
Also simplify the code copying the string contents to just use strdup()
(if there are ever any platforms where this POSIX functions is not
available, we could just define it ourselves once instead of using
strlen() + malloc() + memcpy() manually twice).
Use enum types instead of int for the enum-valued parameters and
function return values, this is more type-safe and clear for the users
of the library.
Change cpp_enum unit test to use C++ to check that C++ enum wrappers
can at least be compiled, but still use C API in it.
Note that enum whose underlying type is bigger than int still don't
work, but this is no different from what it was before, so just document
this limitation but don't do anything else about it for now.
This commit is best viewed ignoring whitespace-only changes.
Check for the pending exception after every call to a wrapper function
not marked "noexcept" and throw a C++ exception if necessary.
Add C++ version of the exception example to show how this works.
Also change SWIG_CException to use member functions for checking for and
resetting pending exceptions, this seems better than having separate
functions for it and will make it easier to customize exception handling
later by just replacing SWIG_CException class with something else.
Note that we still use a global (and not a member) function for raising
the exception, but this one is not exported at all, and needs to be a
function in order to be easily callable from other modules (see the
upcoming commit).
We need the types from the imported modules, so #include the header
generated for it.
Unfortunately we have to half-guess the name used for that header, as
it's not available anywhere (and can't really be, as it could be changed
by a command line option used for another SWIG invocation that was used
to compile that module), but this seems to work well enough in practice.
In particular, this fixes failures in multi cpp tests, so that we don't
need FAILING_MULTI_CPP_TESTS any longer.
Trying to create the same "runme" executable for both C and C++ examples
could result in errors when using parallel make, as one of the targets
could fail to write to the file being currently executed.
Using separate names works around this problem.
Support for the exception specifications using types was removed in
C++17 (and "throw ()" in C++20), so don't use them when using the C++
compiler any longer, as this broke the example with recent g++ versions
that use C++17 by default.
We still need them for SWIG, however, so use SWIG_THROW macro, defined
differently for SWIG and the compiler, to preserve the existing
behaviour.
Using %except might be a better idea, but would require more changes.
C++ wrappers still don't compile for about a hundred tests, but they do
compile for almost 500 more of them, so it's still valuable to be able
to check that there are no regressions for those that do work now.
It's simpler to write tests in C++ rather than C and checking the
generated C++ API also checks the C API it uses underneath, so there is
no need to have both.
Disable them for the test suite, as plenty things don't work yet, but
there is already more than enough code to not want to add even more
fixes to the same commit.
For C++ tests, check header compilation using C++ compiler too, as this
detects constructs valid in C but invalid in C++ and will also be useful
for checking C++-specific parts of the headers that will be generated in
the future.
Support compiling and running either _runme.c or _runme.cxx files for
the given test (but not both).
Add a simple C++ test file to check that it actually works.
The -namespace option provides a better way of using the wrapped API, so
drop the optional wrapper generation, which is useless when this option
is used and just generates many lines of unwanted junk in the header.
Update the test suite and the examples to compensate to not rely on
being able to define SWIG_DEFINE_WRAPPER_ALIASES and add -namespace
option to all C++ tests, as it's done for C# test suite, and update them
to use the correct prefix and also use the accessors for the global
variables rather than using them directly, as this is impossible when
namespace prefix is used (it would have been possible to define a
preprocessor symbol corresponding to the real variable name, but it's
arguably not worth it).
fixup! Remove wrapper aliases generation and use -namespace in the tests
These tests duplicate the other, more complex, existing unit tests, so
it's just not useful to have them at all any more (they could have been
useful at the very beginning of C backend development, when none of the
other tests worked).
Use the containing class name as prefix, and add the name of the enum
itself to the prefix for the scoped enums, instead of doing something
strange and semi-random that we did before, with prefixes including the
namespace (which should never be the case without "nspace" feature), but
not the scoped enum.
This also fixes renaming of enum elements, as a side effect, which
didn't work before, add run test for enum_rename unit test to prove it.
This was done way back in f84342a30 (Modified parameter handling using
typemaps. 'Reference' example. Visibility hint now applies only to the
global functions., 2008-06-28), surely accidentally.
Defining the aliases by default results in conflicts when including
headers from multiple modules as e.g. SWIG_PendingException_get() is
defined in all of them, and could also easily result in other unwanted
clashes, so make this opt-in and update the examples and tests relying
on using the wrappers without the module prefix to define
SWIG_DEFINE_WRAPPER_ALIASES explicitly.
Enable the tests and support of shared_ptr in them for C (which required
disabling a previously passing, because not doing anything, attributes
test which is currently broken for unrelated reasons).
Also undo the changes to common.mk originally done in this branch and
rendered unnecessary by de5e0c865 (C++11 testing moved to a configure
option, 2013-10-08) on master.
This test doesn't really work, as directors support is not implemented
at all in C backend, but remove it from here to prevent reports from
"make check-failing" about "failing test passing".
This is similar to be491506a (Java std::vector improvements for types
that do not have a default constructor., 2019-03-01) for Java, except we
don't have to bother with any compatibility constraints for this, not
yet used by anyone. module.
Use simple fixed typemap instead of trying to use the much more complex
one from the UTL which doesn't work for C.
Add a simple test case for std::map<>.
This is needed to find the SWIG-generated shared library when using C
too, as it's already the case for many (but, surprisingly, not all)
other target languages.
There doesn't seem to be any reason for using it rather than just
returning from main() as usual, and it provokes warnings about
implicitly declared function when compiling them.
