This option, if used, has not had any effect on Python 3 code since commit a863d3 9 years ago.
I think we can assume that it is not needed for Python 3.
Running the examples and test-suite (Python 2) doesn't change the code
paths with and without -safecstrings because only SWIG_OLDOBJ and SWIG_NEWOBJ
are used in the typemaps and the following code is thus unaltered by -safecstrings
(which sets SWIG_PYTHON_SAFE_CSTRINGS):
%#if defined(SWIG_PYTHON_SAFE_CSTRINGS)
if (*alloc != SWIG_OLDOBJ)
%#else
if (*alloc == SWIG_NEWOBJ)
%#endif
{
*cptr = %new_copy_array(cstr, len + 1, char);
*alloc = SWIG_NEWOBJ;
printf("safe strings: %s\n", *cptr ? *cptr : "NULLSTRING");
} else {
*cptr = cstr;
*alloc = SWIG_OLDOBJ;
}
Note: nosafecstrings was also the default and -O didn't actually change this.
06/25/2002
This directory contains all of the SWIG language modules. Many of these
modules contain code that dates back to SWIG1.0. The module API has changed
a lot in the development releases so this is fairly messy. We're working on
cleaning it up, but you'll have to bear with us until it's done.
-- Dave
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