[Kde-bindings] Re: Munging of long long

[Arno Rehn]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 19:11:41 Richard Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:21:42 pm Arno Rehn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 September 2010 22:17:48 Chris Burel wrote:
> > > I spoke briefly with Arno about this. My understanding is that it is
> > > in the voidpTypes list because it is stored as a voidp in the
> > > Smoke::StackItem union.  From my experience with the Perl bindings,
> > > adding <typeName>long long</typeName> to the list of scalar types in
> > > all the smokeconfig.xml files is good enough to force smoke to munge
> > > long long to "$".
> > > Arno, what do you think?
> > 
> > Yes, long long is munged to '?' because there is no Smoke::StackItem
> > field for long long. So currently long longs are passed by-ref in the
> > s_voidp field. I do see that this is not the optimal solution since long
> > long is really an integral type and should have its own field.
> > The problem is that we can't simply add such a field without seriously
> > breaking functionality.
> 
> I disagree because kalyptus treated long longs as '$'. It would only affect
> the Qyoto C# bindings I think. I don't know about the differences between
> the kalyptus generated C# sources and the dynamically generated ones in
> the gitorius project though.
Oh, I didn't know that. I was pretty sure kalyptus has munged them to ? as 
well. Well then, I think we can change it to $ again, if that makes everything 
work again.
However, this doesn't change the situation that long longs are passed by-ref, 
whereas all other scalars are passed by-value.

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Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de