[Swig-user] I need to do something dreadful!

[Robert J. <rob...@gm...>]

I am using Swig to wrap a C API to some hardware into Python, and
at some point the C API gives a handle to resources which is of a type
ultimately typedef'd to an unsigned int. Later, when I pass the value back
to the
C API I have to a pass it in a value which is ultimately typedef'd
to a signed int. There are of coourse some values which are too
large to pass in  a signed int, but fine to pass in an unsigned int, and
when I use one of these values Swig quite rightly barfs, saying the
value is too large.

Can I break swig's type system a bit, maybe with a typemap, to
not check the size of the passed signed int parameter?

Cheers all, Rob.