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From: "Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
To: cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Updated: swig-1.3.19-1
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:03:21 -0500 
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I've updated the version of SWIG to 1.3.19-1. Tarballs should
be available on the Cygwin mirrors shortly.

As per the SWIG web page (http://www.swig.org):

  SWIG (Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator) is a software
  development tool that connects programs written in C and C++
  with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is
  primarily used with common scripting languages such as Perl,
  Python, Tcl/Tk, Ruby, Guile and MzScheme, however the list
  of supported languages also includes non-scripting languages
  such as Java and OCAML. SWIG is most commonly used to create
  high-level interpreted programming environments, user
  interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++
  software. SWIG may be freely used, distributed, and modified
  for commercial and noncommercial use.

Version 1.3.19 is a regular development release of SWIG. More
information, including release notes and user documentation,
can be found in the directory /usr/doc/swig-1.3.19/.

***LATE-BREAKING NEWS***

One thing that won't be currently found in that directory is
an issue that has come up with the latest Cygwin release of
Perl (5.8.0), which uses 64-bit integers. This results in
some warnings of the following type when compiling the output
of SWIG:
  warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

It is specifically caused by the SWIG_ConvertPtr() function,
which casts Perl type IV (now a long long) into a pointer in
several circumstances.

This warning does not appear to cause any test cases to fail.
This issue just came up and is being addressed by the SWIG
development community.

--
Gerald Williams
Cygwin SWIG maintainer


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