[GCC-XML] GCC-XML 0.7 & 0.9 changes

[Brad King]

Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> I finally had time to investigate failures in pygccxml unittests. I will
> list all changes I saw.
> 
> Code, generated XML for both versions and essential differences could be
> found in
> http://pygccxml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pygccxml/pygccxml_dev/gccxml-0.9-upgrade/

Thanks!  Do you mind if I link to this off the gccxml.org News page?

> 1. Numerics is now reported with suffixes. For example instead 7, gccxml
> 0.9  will report 7u or 7ul. See file const_variables.* files
> 2. Demangled string has changed.  For example see
> http://pygccxml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pygccxml/pygccxml_dev/gccxml-0.9-upgrade/demangled.h.diff?revision=1118&view=markup
> <http://pygccxml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pygccxml/pygccxml_dev/gccxml-0.9-upgrade/demangled.h.diff?revision=1118&view=markup>
> file
> 3. Type for pointers to member variable ( offset ) has changed.
> 4. If struct doesn't contains user defined constructors, than new xml
> will not contain them too. The previous version of GCC-XML generated
> default & copy constructors
> 5. Function default values contain "right values".
> 
> I guess 1,2 & 4 are not bug and I need to update the code. I am not sure
> about 3. I didn't take a look on new source code.

These are all due to changes in GCC itself.  Point #3 is a bit annoying
but I do not see any reason that this was a wrong decision by the GCC
folks.  There is no such thing as a member-data type or
reference-to-member type...there is only a pointer-to-member type.

-Brad