Re: bug while wrapping const char arrays without an explicitly defined size

Marcelo Matus writes:
 > >Where is SWIG_FromCharArray() coming from?   I don't remember that
 > >function being part of the SWIG API (I sure didn't write it anyways).
 > >
 > >SWIG developers:   Is there some reason the normal PyObject API
 > >functions are not being used here???
 > >
 > >  
 > >
 > 
 > Most of the PyObject API functions don't check for NULL pointers, and
 > if you pass one, python crashes. Also, internally python uses
 > 'int' for size, which means if you have a very large binary string
 > python can't handle it.
 > 
 > The extra SWIG_XXX methods check for null when needed and
 > return you a plain pointer (not a python string) if the array size
 > is larger than INT_MAX.
 > 

IMHO, both of these problems sound like issues that can be resolved
using user-defined typemaps and are not necessary for SWIG's default
behavior.

-- Dave
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