Re: [Swig-user] How to prevent allocation and wrapping of a return type

[Cherry, J. (NIH/NLM/N. [E] <jc...@nc...>]

> typedef int64_t AIORET_TYPE.
>
> I have a number of functions that return this AIORET_TYPE type. Hence I don't want to create custom signatures for all of these functions.
>
>
> My problem is that SWIG believes that this is a structure, is allocating 
> memory ( of size AIORET_TYPE ) to copy this value into , and it is 
> returning as a PyObject *.
>
>How can I get SWIG to ignore this type and realize that nothing needs to 
>be allocated ?

I imagine that SWIG does not know of int64_t.  You may just need to %include stdint.i .

Josh