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

[Roman Yakovenko]

On Nov 5, 2007 11:53 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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?


Not at all. I am going to accumulate such changes in that place.

>
>
> > 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.
>

Thanks for explanation.



-- 
Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
http://www.language-binding.net/
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