[PyQt] SIP Support for wchar_t

[Phil Thompson]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:57 am, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> On 3/25/2007 4:06 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > As of tonight's snapshot SIP has support for wchar_t. There are some
> > issues related to wide strings and the heap - see the documentation for
> > details - which could be partly addressed with some new annotations. I'd
> > prefer that any changes are based on real world examples, so let me have
> > some feedback if you use want to use wchar_t in your own bindings.
>
> ... and a bug report: SIP generates a sipFree() call to free the wchar_t
> memory after having used it. It works if the pointer is of type
> "wchar_t*", but it does not work if the pointer is of type "const
> wchar_t*":
>
> error C2664: 'void (void *)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const
> wchar_t *' to 'void *'
>          Conversion loses qualifiers
>
> I worked around it by dropping the const qualifiers from the parameter
> declarations in the SIP files.

Should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

Phil