[Swig-user] Ruby and change(?) in constant string handling

[Roy S. <ro...@mi...>]

In one of the .i files we include in our project we had the line:

%constant const char * ART_TOOLBAR               = wxART_TOOLBAR_C;

Under Swig 1.3.25 this got converted as:

    rb_define_const(mWxRubyConstants,"ART_TOOLBAR", 
rb_str_new2("wxART_TOOLBAR_C"));

Now it gets converted as:

  rb_define_const(mWxRubyConstants, "ART_TOOLBAR", 
SWIG_FromCharPtr(wxART_TOOLBAR_C));

I've changed the .i file to read:

%constant const char * ART_TOOLBAR               = "wxART_TOOLBAR_C";

And now at least it compiles.  I can't seem to find anything in the docs 
that refers to this implicit conversion to a string from an identifier 
so I'm wondering if we were relying on some undocumented bug before or 
if perhaps my change was wrong?