[GCC-XML] last commit

[Roman Yakovenko]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Roman Yakovenko wrote:
>> Good evening.
>>
>> Brad, can you explain your last commit?
>>
>> "... BUG: xml_output_record_type should perform lazy declaration of
>> implicitly declared constructors, destructors, and assignment
>> operators so they are reported in the output.  See issue #7148. ..."
>>
>> Can you give an example of a code that this commit fix?
>
> It was a fix for this bug:
>
>  http://www.gccxml.org/Bug/view.php?id=7148
>
> For this code:
>
>  struct A { template <class T> A(T&); };
>
> gccxml was dumping no constructors at all which made the class look
> default-constructible.  We still don't dump the template, but now
> someone reading the output can assume from the lack of a default
> constructor that there is no such constructor available.
>
>> Code generation for Boost.Python could be very tricky, especially when
>> it is related to constructors and destructors.
>
> After this fix, all constructors and destructors that exist for a class
> are dumped whether the user declared them or not.  Those that were
> implicitly declared by the compiler are marked as "artificial".

Thanks for the update.

I run my tests with this change and few of them failed. I guess, I
have another session of tweaking :-).

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