This patch fixes a compilation error that occurs with gcc >= 4.6.1,
caused by swig not including cstddef and not using the std:: namespace
prefix for ptrdiff_t. There is an old patch,
http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/913/ that no longer applies cleanly and
this might be re-iterating the same issue.
We work around the problem by always enforcing the inclusion of
cstddef in all swig interface declarations, and also by explicitly
using std::ptrdiff_t.
for param in params:
param.cxx_predecls(code)
cls.export_method_cxx_predecls(code)
+ code('''\
+/**
+ * This is a workaround for bug in swig. Prior to gcc 4.6.1 the STL
+ * headers like vector, string, etc. used to automatically pull in
+ * the cstddef header but starting with gcc 4.6.1 they no longer do.
+ * This leads to swig generated a file that does not compile so we
+ * explicitly include cstddef. Additionally, including version 2.0.4,
+ * swig uses ptrdiff_t without the std:: namespace prefix which is
+ * required with gcc 4.6.1. We explicitly provide access to it.
+ */
+#include <cstddef>
+using std::ptrdiff_t;
+''')
code('%}')
code()