Re: [Swig-devel] BUG: 1.3.30 breaks SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION

[Prabhu R. <pra...@us...>]

>>>>> "John" == John Lenz <le...@cs...> writes:

    John> William S Fulton wrote:
    >> Could John Lenz comment on this patch if he is around?

    >> Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
    >>> Somewhere between 1.3.25 and 1.3.30 the swig_type_info was
    >>> changed by adding an owndata field to it.  However, the
    >>> SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION was not updated.  It should be 3 instead
    >>> of 2.  Weave relies on this information to suitably compile
[...]

    John> Ok.  I'm just wondering, what is the owndata member used
    John> for?  I see Marcelo added it a while back, but I missed the
    John> CVS commit.

Thanks for following up on this!

    John> I will also take a closer look at the other issue (module
    John> size) that you brought up.... I did take a look at module
    John> size back when I first converted over the type system, but
    John> it might have changed since then...

I *suspect* it has something to do with improved C++ support and not
the swig runtime layout but am not sure.  I guess Marcelo is likely to
know best.

cheers,
prabhu