[issue7160] Crash when returning a 64-bit char pointer in Python 2.6.3 ctypes

[Michael J. Fromberger]

Michael J. Fromberger <michael.j.fromberger at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thank you for setting me straight. 

I see now that I misunderstood the scope of `CFUNCTYPE`, as I was using 
it as a general wrapper when in fact it's only needed for callbacks. 
Mistakenly, I inferred from reading section 16.15.2.4 of the ctypes 
manual [1] that it would be necessary to create prototype wrappers for 
calls into the foreign library as well. Obviously that is not the case, 
since your described solution works fine.

[1] <http://www.python.org/doc/2.6.3/library/ctypes.html#function-
prototypes>

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