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

[Marcelo M. <mm...@ac...>]

Other solution, when calling in python, this could work too

   foo(int(value_too_large))

marcelo


Robert Jones wrote:

> 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.