Re: [Swig-devel] PHP UTL status

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On 2006-09-23, Kevin Ruland <kr...@su...> wrote:
> I think it will take quite a bit of baking to make this php branch 
> viable.  It will be up to Olly if it makes it onto head at all.

Not sure I really deserve a right of veto, but I think it's the way to
go eventually anyway.  William's suggestion to merge it after 1.3.30
sounds good to me.

> The biggest place I am having troubles is with error handling.  In days 
> of old, the error macro would end up calling SWIG_fail; which is a 
> goto.  For some reason, one of the test cases generated code without the 
> label.

I think I remember noticing there's some case where the generated C/C++
wrapper function doesn't get a fail label.  I forget when though.

> So I had to resort to zend_error.  Which is another problem, 
> zend_error is pretty brutal and doesn't give the wrapper method an 
> opportunity to clean up.  This is something which requires some serious 
> thinking.

For PHP5, perhaps we should consider throwing an exception instead?

Cheers,
    Olly