Re: [pygccxml-development] uint32_t vs unsigned int, cygwin problems

[Gustavo C. <gjc...@gm...>]

Inspecting the gccxml XML output file I get the impression this is a bug in
gccxml itself.

I reported it as: http://www.gccxml.org/Bug/view.php?id=7572


2008/8/28 Gustavo Carneiro <gjc...@gm...>

> I am having a problem with (py)gccxml parsing of templated types, where a
> different type is being reported.
>
> For example, here:
>
> std::set<uint32_t> get_set ();
>
> With this code:
>
>         for fun in
> module_namespace.free_functions(function=self.location_filter,
>                                                    allow_empty=True,
> recursive=False):
>             if fun.name.startswith('__'):
>                 continue
>             for dependency in fun.i_depend_on_them(recursive=False):
>                 type_info = dependency.depend_on_it
>                 traits = container_traits.find_container_traits(type_info)
>                 if traits is None:
>                     continue
>                 print >> sys.stderr, "** type: %s; --->
> partial_decl_string: %r" % (type_info, type_info.partial_decl_string)
>
> It prints:
>
> ** type: std::set<unsigned int,std::less<unsigned
> int>,std::allocator<unsigned int> >; ---> partial_decl_string: '::std::set<
> unsigned int >'
>
> Yes, I know what you are thinking, it's ok, unsigned int and uint32_t are
> the same type after all.  Well, usually it is, sometimes it's not.  I
> received a report about generated code not compiling in cygwin, and I found
> out that it's because in cygwin uint32_t is typdefed as 'unsigned long int',
> instead of 'unsigned int'.  Yes, cygwin is broken, I know, but we have to
> live with it :|
>
> Is there anything that I can do to make this right?  I would like to avoid
> losing the type information and keep uint32_t around instead of unsigned
> int, else the generated code is not very portable.
>
> --
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
> "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
>



-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert