[C++-sig] Collection of pyste notes

[Niall Douglas]

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Just readying TnFOX v0.5 for release and I have a few notes.

1. Guess it's obvious, but pyste generates incorrect code for 
bitfields eg;

struct Foo
{
   unsigned int a:3;
   unsigned int b:2;
};

The problem of course is that you can't take the address of a 
bitfield member. I guess to handle this you need lots of little 
wrapper functions which seems extreme. Can perhaps the bit offset be 
calculated by compile-time magic and then use a custom make_getter()?

2. gccxml from CVS fixes a number of previous problems, including the 
throw() modifier one - or rather, it now tells pyste when throw() is 
specified so pyste can cast it off for you (an easy mod to pyste). 
More good news is that the previous problem with const public static 
data members has been fixed.

3. gccxml from CVS now returns the typedefed type rather than the 
underlying type. Hence if I have typedef char FXchar; and I do things 
like:

const FXchar *getName() const;

... now pyste doesn't recognise that it's a string and complains.

Cheers,
Niall





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