SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)

See the CHANGES.current file for changes in the current version.
See the RELEASENOTES file for a summary of changes in each release.

Version 2.0.1 (4 October 2010)
==============================

2010-10-03: wsfulton
            Apply patch #3066958 from Mikael Johansson to fix default smart pointer
            handling when the smart pointer contains both a const and non-const operator->.

2010-10-01: wsfulton
            Add -pcreversion option to display PCRE version information.

2010-10-01: olly
	    [Ruby] Avoid segfault when a method node has no parentNode
	    (SF#3034054).

2010-10-01: olly
	    [Python] Allow reinitialisation to work with an embedded Python
	    interpreter (patch from Jim Carroll in SF#3075178).

2010-09-28: wsfulton
            [C#] Apply patch from Tomas Dirvanauskas for std::map wrappers to avoid
            throwing exceptions with normal usage of iterators.

2010-09-27: olly
	    [Python] Improve error message given when a parameter of the wrong
	    type is passed to an overloaded method (SF#3027355).

2010-09-25: wsfulton
            Apply SF patch #3075150 - Java directors using static variables in
            named namespace.

2010-09-24: wsfulton
            More file and line error/warning reporting fixes where SWIG macros
            are used within {} braces (where the preprocessor expands macros),
            for example macros within %inline {...} and %fragment(...) {...}
            and nested structs.

2010-09-18: wsfulton
            More file and line error/warning reporting fixes for various inherited
            class problems.

2010-09-15: wsfulton
            A much improved debugging of SWIG source experience is now available and
            documented in the "Debugging SWIG" section in the Doc/Devel/internals.html
            file, including a swig.dbg support file for the gdb debugger.

2010-09-11: wsfulton
            Fix incorrect line number reporting in errors/warnings when a macro
            definition ends with '/' and it is not the end of a C comment.

2010-09-11: wsfulton
            Fix incorrect line number reporting in errors/warnings after parsing
            macro invocations with parameters given over more than one line.

2010-09-10: wsfulton
            Remove extraneous extra line in preprocessed output after including files
            which would sometimes lead to error/warning messages two lines after the
            end of the file.

2010-09-10: wsfulton
            Fix #2149523 - Incorrect line number reporting in errors after parsing macros
            containing C++ comments.

2010-09-08: olly
	    [PHP] Fix handling of OUTPUT typemaps (Patch from Ryan in SF#3058394).

2010-09-03: wsfulton
            Fix erroneous line numbers in error messages for macro expansions, for example,
            the error message now points to instantiation of the macro, ie the last line here:

              #define MACRO2(a, b) 

              #define MACRO1(NAME) MACRO2(NAME,2,3) 

              MACRO1(abc)

2010-09-02: wsfulton
            Fix line numbers in error and warning messages for preprocessor messages within
            %inline, for example:

              %inline %{
              #define FOOBAR 1
              #define FOOBAR "hi"
              %}

2010-09-02: wsfulton
            Fix line numbers in error and warning messages which were cumulatively one
            less than they should have been after parsing each %include/%import - bug
            introduced in swig-1.3.32. Also fix line numbers in error and warning messages
            when new line characters appear between the %include / %import statement and
            the filename.

2010-08-30: wsfulton
            Fix line number and file name reporting for some macro preprocessor warnings.
            The line number of the macro argument has been corrected and the line number
            of the start of the macro instead of one past the end of the macro is used.
            Some examples:
              file.h:11: Error: Illegal macro argument name '..'
              file.h:19: Error: Macro 'DUPLICATE' redefined,
              file.h:15: Error: previous definition of 'DUPLICATE'.
              file.h:25: Error: Variable-length macro argument must be last parameter
              file.h:32: Error: Illegal character in macro argument name
              file.i:37: Error: Macro 'SIT' expects 2 arguments

2010-08-26: wsfulton
            Fix __LINE__ and __FILE__ expansion reported by Camille Gillot. Mostly this
            did not work at all. Also fixes SF #2822822.

2010-08-17: wsfulton
            [Perl] Fix corner case marshalling of doubles - errno was not being correctly
            set before calling strtod - patch from Justin Vallon - SF Bug #3038936.

2010-08-17: wsfulton
            Fix make distclean when some of the more obscure languages are detected by
            configure - fixes from Torsten Landschoff.

2010-07-28: wsfulton
            Restore configuring out of source for the test-suite since it broke in 1.3.37.
            As previously, if running 'make check-test-suite' out of source, it needs to be
            done by invoking configure with a relative path. Invoking configure with an
            absolute path will not work. Running the full 'make check' still needs to be
            done in the source tree.

2010-07-16: wsfulton
            Fix wrapping of function pointers and member function pointers when the function
            returns by reference.

2010-07-13: vadz
            Removed support for the old experimental "rxspencer" encoder and
            "[not]rxsmatch" in %rename (see the 01/16/2006 entry). The new and
            officially supported "regex" encoder and "[not]regexmatch" checks
            should be used instead (see the two previous entries). Please
            replace "%(rxspencer:[pat][subst])s" with "%(regex:/pat/subst/)s"
            when upgrading. Notice that you will also need to replace the back-
            references of form "@1" with the more standard "\\1" and may need to
            adjust your regular expressions syntax as the new regex encoder uses
            Perl-compatible syntax and not (extended) POSIX syntax as the old one.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-07-13: vadz
            Add "regexmatch", "regextarget" and "notregexmatch" which can be
            used to apply %rename directives to the declarations matching the
            specified regular expression only. The first two can be used
            interchangeably, both of the %renames below do the same thing:

                %rename("$ignore", regexmatch$name="Old$") "";
                %rename("$ignore", regextarget=1) "Old$";

            (namely ignore the declarations having "Old" suffix).

            "notregexmatch" restricts the match to only the declarations which
            do not match the regular expression, e.g. here is how to rename to
            lower case versions all declarations except those consisting from
            capital letters only:

                %rename("$(lowercase)s", notregexmatch$name="^[A-Z]+$") "";

2010-07-13: vadz
            Add the new "regex" encoder that can be used in %rename, e.g.

                %rename("regex:/(\\w+)_(.*)/\\2/") "";

            to remove any alphabetical prefix from all identifiers. The syntax
            of the regular expressions is Perl-like and PCRE library
            (http://www.pcre.org/) is used to implement this feature but notice
            that backslashes need to be escaped as usual inside C strings.

            Original patch from Torsten Landschoff.

2010-07-08: wsfulton
            Fix #3024875 - shared_ptr of classes with non-public destructors. This also fixes
            the "unref" feature when used on classes with non-public destructors.

2010-06-17: ianlancetaylor
            [Go] Add the Go language module.

2010-06-10: wsfulton
            [Lua] Fix SWIG_lua_isnilstring multiply defined when using multiple
            modules and wrapping strings. Patch from 'Number Cruncher'.

2010-06-10: olly
	    [PHP] Fix directors to correctly call a method with has a
	    different name in PHP to C++ (we were always using the C++ name
	    in this case).

2010-06-03: wsfulton
            Fix uncompileable code when %rename results in two enum items
            with the same name. Reported by Vadim Zeitlin.

Version 2.0.0 (2 June 2010)
===========================

2010-06-02: wsfulton
            [C#] Fix SWIG_STD_VECTOR_ENHANCED macro used in std::vector to work with
            types containing commas, for example:

              SWIG_STD_VECTOR_ENHANCED(std::pair< double, std::string >)

2010-06-01: wsfulton
            Add in std_shared_ptr.i for wrapping std::shared_ptr. Requires the %shared_ptr
            macro like in the boost_shared_ptr.i library. std::tr1::shared_ptr can also be
            wrapped if the following macro is defined:

              #define SWIG_SHARED_PTR_SUBNAMESPACE tr1
              %include <std_shared_ptr.i>

            shared_ptr is also documented in Library.html now.

2010-05-27: wsfulton
            Add the ability for $typemap special variable macros to call other $typemap
            special variable macros, for example:

              %typemap(cstype) CC "CC"
              %typemap(cstype) BB "$typemap(cstype, CC)"
              %typemap(cstype) AA "$typemap(cstype, BB)"
              void hah(AA aa);

            This also fixes C# std::vector containers of shared_ptr and %shared_ptr.

            Also added diagnostics for $typemap with -debug-tmsearch, for example, the
            above displays additional diagnostic lines starting "Containing: ":

              example.i:34: Searching for a suitable 'cstype' typemap for: AA aa
                Looking for: AA aa
                Looking for: AA
                Using: %typemap(cstype) AA
                Containing: $typemap(cstype, BB)
              example.i:31: Searching for a suitable 'cstype' typemap for: BB
                Looking for: BB
                Using: %typemap(cstype) BB
                Containing: $typemap(cstype, CC)
              example.i:29: Searching for a suitable 'cstype' typemap for: CC
                Looking for: CC
                Using: %typemap(cstype) CC

2010-05-26: olly
	    Fix %attribute2ref not to produce a syntax error if the last
	    argument (AccessorMethod) is omitted.  Patch from David Piepgras
	    in SF#2235756.

2010-05-26: olly
	    [PHP] When using %throws or %catches, SWIG-generated PHP5 wrappers
	    now throw PHP Exception objects instead of giving a PHP error of
	    type E_ERROR.

	    This change shouldn't cause incompatibility issues, since you can't
	    set an error handler for E_ERROR, so previously PHP would just exit
	    which also happens for unhandled exceptions.  The benefit is you can
	    now catch them if you want to.

	    Fixes SF#2545578 and SF#2955522.

2010-05-25: olly
	    [PHP] Add missing directorin typemap for const std::string &.
	    Fixes SF#3006404 reported by t-Legiaw.

2010-05-23: wsfulton
            [C#] Fix #2957375 - SWIGStringHelper and SWIGExceptionHelper not always being
            initialized before use in .NET 4 as the classes were not marked beforefieldinit.
            A static constructor has been added to the intermediary class like this:

              %pragma(csharp) imclasscode=%{
                static $imclassname() {
                }
              %}

            If you had added your own custom static constructor to the intermediary class in
            the same way as above, you will have to modify your approach to use static variable
            initialization or define SWIG_CSHARP_NO_IMCLASS_STATIC_CONSTRUCTOR - See csharphead.swg.

	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-05-23: wsfulton
            Fix #2408232. Improve shared_ptr and intrusive_ptr wrappers for classes in an
            inheritance hierarchy. No special treatment is needed for derived classes.
            The proxy class also no longer needs to be specified, it is automatically
            deduced. The following macros are deprecated:
              SWIG_SHARED_PTR(PROXYCLASS, TYPE)
              SWIG_SHARED_PTR_DERIVED(PROXYCLASS, BASECLASSTYPE, TYPE)
            and have been replaced by
              %shared_ptr(TYPE)
            Similarly for intrusive_ptr wrappers, the following macro is deprecated:
              SWIG_INTRUSIVE_PTR(PROXYCLASS, TYPE)
              SWIG_INTRUSIVE_PTR_DERIVED(PROXYCLASS, BASECLASSTYPE, TYPE)
            and have been replaced by
              %intrusive_ptr(TYPE)

2010-05-21: olly
	    [PHP] Stop generating a bogus line of code in certain constructors.
	    This was mostly harmless, but caused a PHP notice to be issued, if
	    enabled (SF#2985684).

2010-05-18: wsfulton
            [Java] Fix member pointers on 64 bit platforms.

2010-05-14: wsfulton
            Fix wrapping of C++ enum boolean values reported by Torsten Landschoff:
              typedef enum { PLAY = true, STOP = false } play_state;

2010-05-14: olly
	    [PHP] Fix wrapping of global variables which was producing
	    uncompilable code in some cases.

2010-05-12: drjoe
	    [R] Add two more changes from Wil Nolan.  Get garbage
	    collection to work.  Implement newfree

2010-05-09: drjoe
            Fix bug reported by Wil Nolan change creation of string so
            that R 2.7.0+ can use char hashes

2010-05-07: wsfulton
            Apply patch #2955146 from Sergey Satskiy to fix expressions containing divide by
            operator in constructor initialization lists.

2010-05-05: wsfulton
            [R] Memory leak fix handling const std::string & inputs, reported by Will Nolan.

2010-05-01: wsfulton
            Typemap matching enhancement for non-default typemaps. Previously all
            qualifiers were stripped in one step, now they are stripped one at a time
            starting with the left most qualifier. For example, int const*const 
            is first stripped to int *const then int *.

	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-04-25: bhy
            [Python] Fix #2985655 - broken constructor renaming.

2010-04-14: wsfulton
            Typemap fragments are now official and documented in Typemaps.html.

2010-04-09: wsfulton
            [Ruby] Fix #2048064 and #2408020.
            Apply Ubuntu patch to fix Ruby and std::vector wrappers with -minherit.
            https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swig1.3/+bug/522874

2010-04-09: wsfulton
            [Mzscheme] Apply Ubuntu patch to fix std::map wrappers:
            https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swig1.3/+bug/203876

2010-04-09: wsfulton
            [Python] Apply patch #2952374 - fix directors and the -nortti option.

2010-04-09: wsfulton
            [Lua] Fix #2887254 and #2946032 - SWIG_Lua_typename using wrong stack index.

2010-04-03: wsfulton
            [Python] Fix exceptions being thrown with the -threads option based on patch from Arto Vuori.
            Fixes bug #2818499.

2010-04-03: wsfulton
            Fix Makefile targets: distclean and maintainer-clean

2010-04-02: wsfulton
            [Lua] Fix char pointers, wchar_t pointers and char arrays so that nil can be passed as a
            valid value. Bug reported by Gedalia Pasternak.

2010-04-01: wsfulton
            Numerous subtle typemap matching rule fixes when using the default type. The typemap
            matching rules are to take a type and find the best default typemap (SWIGTYPE, SWIGTYPE* etc),
            then look for the next best match by reducing the chosen default type. The type deduction
            now follows C++ class template partial specialization matching rules.

            Below are the set of changes made showing the default type deduction
            along with the old reduced type and the new version of the reduced type:

                   SWIGTYPE const &[ANY]
              new: SWIGTYPE const &[]
              old: SWIGTYPE (&)[ANY]

                   SWIGTYPE *const [ANY]
              new: SWIGTYPE const [ANY]
              old: SWIGTYPE *[ANY]

                   SWIGTYPE const *const [ANY]
              new: SWIGTYPE *const [ANY]
              old: SWIGTYPE const *[ANY]

                   SWIGTYPE const *const &
              new: SWIGTYPE *const &
              old: SWIGTYPE const *&

                   SWIGTYPE *const *
              new: SWIGTYPE const *
              old: SWIGTYPE **

                   SWIGTYPE *const &
              new: SWIGTYPE const &
              old: SWIGTYPE *&

            Additionally, a const SWIGTYPE lookup is used now for any constant type. Some examples, where
            T is some reduced type, eg int, struct Foo:

                   T const
              new: SWIGTYPE const
              old: SWIGTYPE

                   T *const
              new: SWIGTYPE *const
              old: SWIGTYPE *

                   T const[]
              new: SWIGTYPE const[]
              old: SWIGTYPE[]

                   enum T const
              new: enum SWIGTYPE const
              old: enum SWIGTYPE

                   T (*const )[]
              new: SWIGTYPE (*const )[]
              old: SWIGTYPE (*)[]

            Reminder: the typemap matching rules can now be seen for any types being wrapped by using
            either the -debug-tmsearch or -debug-tmused options.

            In practice this leads to some subtle matching rule changes and the majority of users
            won't notice any changes, except in the prime area of motivation for this change: Improve
            STL containers of const pointers and passing const pointers by reference. This is fixed
            because many of the STL containers use a type 'T const&' as parameters and when T is 
            a const pointer, for example, 'K const*', then the full type is 'K const*const&'. This
            means that the 'SWIGTYPE *const&' typemaps now match when T is either a non-const or
            const pointer. Furthermore, some target languages incorrectly had 'SWIGTYPE *&' typemaps
            when these should have been 'SWIGTYPE *const&'. These have been corrected (Java, C#, Lua, PHP).

	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-03-13: wsfulton
            [Java] Some very old deprecated pragma warnings are now errors.

2010-03-13: wsfulton
            Improve handling of file names and directories containing double/multiple path separators.

2010-03-10: mutandiz (Mikel Bancroft)
	    [allegrocl] Use fully qualified symbol name of cl::identity in emit_defun().

2010-03-06: wsfulton
            [Java] The intermediary JNI class modifiers are now public by default meaning these
            intermediary low level functions are now accessible by default from outside any package
            used. The proxy class pointer constructor and getCPtr() methods are also now public.
            These are needed in order for the nspace option to work without any other mods.
            The previous default of protected access can be restored using:

              SWIG_JAVABODY_METHODS(protected, protected, SWIGTYPE)
              %pragma(java) jniclassclassmodifiers = "class"

2010-03-06: wsfulton
            [C#] Added the nspace feature for C#. Documentation for the nspace feature is now available.

2010-03-04: wsfulton
            Added the nspace feature. This adds some improved namespace support. Currently only Java
            is supported for target languages, where C++ namespaces are automatically translated into
            Java packages. The feature only applies to classes,struct,unions and enums declared within
            a namespace. Methods and variables declared in namespaces still effectively have their
            namespaces flattened. Example usage:

              %feature(nspace) Outer::Inner1::Color;
              %feature(nspace) Outer::Inner2::Color;

              namespace Outer {
                namespace Inner1 {
                  struct Color {
                    ...
                  };
                }
                namespace Inner2 {
                  struct Color {
                    ...
                  };
                }
              }

            For Java, the -package option is also required when using the nspace feature. Say
            we use -package com.myco, the two classes can then be accessed as follows from Java:

              com.myco.Outer.Inner1.Color and com.myco.Outer.Inner2.Color.

2010-02-27: wsfulton
            [Python] Remove -dirvtable from the optimizations included by -O as it this option
            currently leads to memory leaks as reported by Johan Blake.

2010-02-27: wsfulton
            License code changes: SWIG Source is GPL-v3 and library code license is now clearer
            and is provided under a very permissive license. See http://www.swig.org/legal.html.

2010-02-13: wsfulton
            [Ruby] A few fixes for compiling under ruby-1.9.x including patch from 'Nibble'.

2010-02-13: wsfulton
            [Ruby] Apply patch from Patrick Bennett to fix RARRAY_LEN and RARRAY_PTR usage for Ruby 1.9.x
            used in various STL wrappers.

2010-02-13: wsfulton
            [C#, Java] Fix incorrect multiply defined symbol name error when an enum item
            and class name have the same name, as reported by Nathan Krieger. Example:

              class Vector {};
              namespace Text {
                enum Preference { Vector };
              }

            This also fixes other incorrect corner case target language symbol name clashes.

2010-02-11: wsfulton
            Add the -debug-lsymbols option for displaying the target language layer symbols.

2010-02-09: wsfulton
            Fix -MM and -MMD options on Windows. They were not omitting files in the SWIG library as
            they should be.

2010-02-08: wsfulton
            Fix #1807329 - When Makefile dependencies are being generated using the -M family of options
            on Windows, the file paths have been corrected to use single backslashes rather than double
            backslashes as path separators.

2010-02-06: wsfulton
            Fix #2918902 - language specific files not being generated in correct directory on
            Windows when using forward slashes for -o, for example:
              swig -python -c++ -o subdirectory/theinterface_wrap.cpp subdirectory/theinterface.i

2010-02-05: wsfulton
            Fix #2894405 - assertion when using -xmlout.

2010-01-28: wsfulton
            Fix typemap matching bug when a templated type has a typemap both specialized and not
            specialized. For example:

              template<typename T> struct XX { ... };
              %typemap(in) const XX & "..."
              %typemap(in) const XX< int > & "..."

            resulted in the 2nd typemap being applied for all T in XX< T >.

2010-01-22: wsfulton
            Fix #2933129 - typemaps not being found when the unary scope operator (::) is used to denote
            global scope, the typemap is now used in situations like this:

              struct X {};
              %typemap(in) const X & "..."
              void m(const ::X &);

            and this:

              struct X {};
              %typemap(in) const ::X & "..."
              void m(const X &);

2010-01-20: wsfulton
            Fix some unary scope operator (::) denoting global scope problems in the types generated
            into the C++ layer. Previously the unary scope operator was dropped in the generated code
            if the type had any sort of qualifier, for example when using pointers, references, like
            ::foo*, ::foo&, bar< ::foo* >.

2010-01-13: olly
	    [PHP] Add datetime to the list of PHP predefined classes (patch
	    from David Fletcher in SF#2931042).

2010-01-11: wsfulton
            Slight change to warning, error and diagnostic reporting. The warning number is no 
            longer shown within brackets. This is to help default parsing of warning messages by
            other tools, vim on Unix in particular.

            Example original display using -Fstandard:
              example.i:20: Warning(401): Nothing known about base class 'B'. Ignored.
            New display:
              example.i:20: Warning 401: Nothing known about base class 'B'. Ignored.

            Also subtle fix to -Fmicrosoft format adding in missing space. Example original display:
              example.i(20): Warning(401): Nothing known about base class 'Base'. Ignored.
            New display:
              example.i(20) : Warning 401: Nothing known about base class 'Base'. Ignored.

2010-01-10: wsfulton
            Fix a few inconsistencies in reporting of file/line numberings including modifying
            the overload warnings 509, 512, 516, 474, 475 to now be two line warnings.

2010-01-10: wsfulton
            Modify -debug-tags output to use standard file name/line reporting so that editors
            can easily navigate to the appropriate lines.
            Was typically:
              . top . include . include (/usr/share/swig/temp/trunk/Lib/swig.swg:312)
              . top . include . include . include (/usr/share/swig/temp/trunk/Lib/swigwarnings.swg:39)
            now:
              /usr/share/swig/temp/trunk/Lib/swig.swg:312:  . top . include . include
              /usr/share/swig/temp/trunk/Lib/swigwarnings.swg:39:  . top . include . include . include

2010-01-03: wsfulton
            Fix missing file/line numbers for typemap warnings and in output from the
           -debug-tmsearch/-debug-tmused options.

2010-01-03: wsfulton
            Add typemaps used debugging option (-debug-tmused). When used each line displays
            the typemap used for each type for which code is being generated including the file
            and line number related to the type. This is effectively a condensed form of the
            -debug-tmsearch option. Documented in Typemaps.html.

2009-12-23: wsfulton
            Fix for %javaexception and directors so that all the appropriate throws clauses 
            are generated. Problem reported by Peter Greenwood.

2009-12-20: wsfulton
            Add -debug-tmsearch option for debugging the typemap pattern matching rules.
            Documented in Typemaps.html.

2009-12-12: wsfulton
            [Octave] Remove the -api option and use the new OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER
            macro provided in the octave headers for determining the api version instead.

2009-12-04: olly
	    [Ruby] Improve support for Ruby 1.9 under GCC.  Addresses part of
	    SF#2859614.

2009-12-04: olly
	    Fix handling of modulo operator (%) in constant expressions
	    (SF#2818562).

2009-12-04: olly
	    [PHP] "empty" is a reserved word in PHP, so rename empty() method
	    on STL classes to "is_empty()" (previously this was automatically
	    renamed to "c_empty()").
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-12-03: olly
	    [PHP] Add typemaps for long long and unsigned long long, and for
	    pointer to method.

2009-12-02: olly
	    [PHP] Fix warning and rename of reserved class name to be case
	    insensitive.

2009-12-01: wsfulton
            Revert support for %extend and memberin typemaps added in swig-1.3.39. The
	    memberin typemaps are ignored again for member variables within a %extend block.
            Documentation inconsistency reported by Torsten Landschoff.

2009-11-29: wsfulton
            [Java, C#] Fix generated quoting when using %javaconst(1)/%csconst(1) for 
            static const char member variables.

              %javaconst(1) A;
              %csconst(1) A;
              struct X {
                static const char A = 'A'; 
              };

2009-11-26: wsfulton
            [Java, C#] Fix %javaconst(1)/%csconst(1) for static const member variables to
            use the actual constant value if it is specified, rather than the C++ code to
            access the member.

              %javaconst(1) EN;
              %csconst(1) EN;
              struct X {
                static const int EN = 2;
              };

2009-11-23: wsfulton
            C++ nested typedef classes can now be handled too, for example:
              struct Outer {
                typedef Foo { } FooTypedef1, FooTypedef2;
              };

2009-11-18: wsfulton
            The wrappers for C nested structs are now generated in the same order as declared 
            in the parsed code.

2009-11-18: wsfulton
            Fix #491476 - multiple declarations of nested structs, for example:
              struct Outer {
                struct {
                  int val;
                } inner1, inner2, *inner3, inner4[1];
              } outer;

2009-11-17: wsfulton
            Fix parsing of enum declaration and initialization, for example:

              enum ABC {
                a,
                b,
                c
              } A = a, *pC = &C, array[3] = {a, b, c};

2009-11-17: wsfulton
            Fix parsing of struct declaration and initialization, for example:

              struct S {
                 int x;
              } instance = { 10 };

2009-11-15: wsfulton
            Fix #1960977 - Syntax error parsing derived nested class declaration and member
            variable instance.

2009-11-14: wsfulton
            Fix #2310483 - function pointer typedef within extern "C" block.

2009-11-13: wsfulton
            Fix usage of nested template classes within templated classes so that compileable code 
            is generated.

2009-11-13: olly
	    [php] Fix place where class prefix (as specified with -prefix)
	    wasn't being used.  Patch from gverbruggen in SF#2892647.

2009-11-12: wsfulton
            Fix usage of nested template classes so that compileable code is generated - the nested
            template class is now treated like a normal nested classes, that is, as an opaque type
            unless the nestedworkaround feature is used.

2009-11-12: wsfulton
            Replace SWIGWARN_PARSE_NESTED_CLASS with SWIGWARN_PARSE_NAMED_NESTED_CLASS and
            SWIGWARN_PARSE_UNNAMED_NESTED_CLASS for named and unnamed nested classes respectively.

            Named nested class ignored warnings can now be suppressed by name using %warnfilter, eg:

              %warnfilter(SWIGWARN_PARSE_NAMED_NESTED_CLASS) Outer::Inner;

            but clearly unnamed nested classes cannot and the global suppression is still required, eg:

              #pragma SWIG nowarn=SWIGWARN_PARSE_UNNAMED_NESTED_CLASS

2009-11-11: wsfulton
            Added the nestedworkaround feature as a way to use the full functionality of a nested class 
            (C++ mode only). It removes the nested class from SWIG's type information so it is as if SWIG
            had never parsed the nested class. The documented nested class workarounds using a global
            fake class stopped working when SWIG treated the nested class as an opaque pointer, and
            this feature reverts this behaviour. The documentation has been updated with details of how
            to use and implement it, see the "Nested classes" section in SWIGPlus.html.

2009-11-11: wsfulton
            There were a number of C++ cases where nested classes/structs/unions were being handled
            as if C code was being parsed which would oftentimes lead to uncompileable code as an
            attempt was made to wrap the nested structs like it is documented for C code. Now all
            nested structs/classes/unions are ignored in C++ mode, as was always documented. However,
            there is an improvement as usage of nested structs/classes/unions is now always treated
            as an opaque type by default, resulting in generated code that should always compile.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-11-09: drjoe
	    Fix R for -fcompact and add std_map.i

2009-11-08: wsfulton
            Fix inconsistency for nested structs/unions/classes. Uncompileable code was being
            generated when inner struct and union declarations were used as types within the
            inner struct. The inner struct/union is now treated as a forward declaration making the
            behaviour the same as an inner class. (C++ code), eg:

              struct Outer {
                struct InnerStruct { int x; };
                InnerStruct* getInnerStruct();
              };

2009-11-08: wsfulton
	    Ignored nested class/struct warnings now display the name of the ignored class/struct.

2009-11-07: wsfulton
	    Bug #1514681 - Fix nested template classes within a namespace generated uncompileable
            code and introduced strange side effects to other wrapper code especially code
            after the nested template class. Note that nested template classes are still ignored.

2009-11-07: wsfulton
	    Add new debug options:
              -debug-symtabs    - Display symbol tables information
              -debug-symbols    - Display target language symbols in the symbol tables
              -debug-csymbols   - Display C symbols in the symbol tables

2009-11-03: wsfulton
	    Fix some usage of unary scope operator (::) denoting global scope, for example:

              namespace AA { /* ... */ }
              using namespace ::AA;

            and bug #1816802 - SwigValueWrapper should be used:

              struct CC {
                CC(int); // no default constructor
              };
              ::CC x();

            and in template parameter specializations:

              struct S {};
              template <typename T> struct X { void a() {}; };
              template <> struct X<S> { void b() {}; };
              %template(MyTConcrete) X< ::S >;

            plus probably some other corner case usage of ::.

2009-11-02: olly
	    [Python] Fix potential memory leak in initialisation code for the
	    generated module.

2009-10-23: wsfulton
	    Fix seg fault when using a named nested template instantiation using %template(name) 
            within a class. A warning that these are not supported is now issued plus processing 
            continues as if no name was given.

2009-10-20: wsfulton
	    [Python] Fix std::vector<const T*>. This would previously compile, but not run correctly.

2009-10-20: wsfulton
	    Fixed previously fairly poor template partial specialization and explicit 
            specialization support. Numerous bugs in this area have been fixed including:

            - Template argument deduction implemented for template type arguments, eg this now
              works:
                template<typename T> class X      {};
                template<typename T> class X<T *> {};
                %template(X1) X<const int *>; // Chooses T * specialization

              and more complex cases with multiple parameters and a mix of template argument
              deduction and explicitly specialised parameters, eg:
                template <typename T1, typename T2> struct TwoParm               { void a() {} };
                template <typename T1>              struct TwoParm<T1 *, int *>  { void e() {} };
                %template(E) TwoParm<int **, int *>;

            Note that the primary template must now be in scope, like in C++, when
            an explicit or partial specialization is instantiated with %template.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-09-14: wsfulton
	    [C#] Add %csattributes for adding C# attributes to enum values, see docs for example.

2009-09-11: wsfulton
	    Fix memmove regression in cdata.i as reported by Adriaan Renting.

2009-09-07: wsfulton
	    Fix constant expressions containing <= or >=.

2009-09-02: wsfulton
	    The following operators in constant expressions now result in type bool for C++ 
            wrappers and remain as type int for C wrappers, as per each standard: 

              && || == != < > <= >= (Actually the last 4 are still broken). For example:

              #define A 10
              #define B 10
              #define A_EQ_B  A == B // now wrapped as type bool for C++
              #define A_AND_B A && B // now wrapped as type bool for C++

2009-09-02: wsfulton
	    Fix #2845746. true and false are now recognised keywords (only when wrapping C++).
            Constants such as the following are now wrapped (as type bool):
              #define FOO true
              #define BAR FOO && false

Version 1.3.40 (18 August 2009)
===============================

2009-08-17: olly
	    [Perl] Add "#undef do_exec" to our clean up of Perl global
	    namespace pollution.

2009-08-17: olly
	    [PHP] Fix to wrap a resource returned by __get() in a PHP object (SF#2549217).

2009-08-17: wsfulton
            Fix #2797485 After doing a 'make clean', install fails if yodl2man or yodl2html 
            is not available.

2009-08-16: wsfulton
            [Octave] Caught exceptions display the type of the C++ exception instead of the
            generic "c++-side threw an exception" message.

2009-08-16: wsfulton
            [Java] When %catches is used, fix so that any classes specified in the "throws"
            attribute of the "throws" typemap are generated into the Java method's throws clause.

2009-08-16: wsfulton
            [C#] Fix exception handling when %catches is used, reported by Juan Manuel Alvarez.

2009-08-15: wsfulton
            Fix %template seg fault on some cases of overloading the templated method.
            Bug reported by Jan Kupec.

2009-08-15: wsfulton
	    [Ruby] Add numerous missing wrapped methods for std::vector<bool> specialization
            as reported by Youssef Jones.

2009-08-14: wsfulton
	    [Perl] Add SWIG_ConvertPtrAndOwn() method into the runtime for smart pointer 
            memory ownership control. shared_ptr support still to be added. Patch from 
            David Fletcher.

2009-08-14: olly
	    [PHP] PHP5 now wraps static member variables as documented.

2009-08-14: olly
	    [PHP] Update the PHP "class" example to work with PHP5 and use
	    modern wrapping features.

2009-08-13: wsfulton
	    [PHP] std::vector wrappers overhaul. They no longer require the 
            specialize_std_vector() macro. Added wrappers for capacity() and reserve().

2009-08-13: wsfulton
	    [PHP] Add const reference typemaps. const reference primitive types are
            now passed by value rather than pointer like the other target languages.
	    Fixes SF#2524029.

2009-08-08: wsfulton
	    [Python] More user friendly AttributeError is raised when there are
            no constructors generated for the proxy class in the event that the
            class is abstract - the error message is now 
            "No constructor defined - class is abstract" whereas if there are no
            public constructors for any other reason and the class is not abstract,
            the message remains
            "No constructor defined".
            [tcl] Similarly for tcl when using -itcl.

2009-08-04: olly
	    [PHP] Fix generated code to work with PHP 5.3.

2009-08-04: vmiklos
            [PHP] Various mathematical functions (which would conflict
            with the built-in PHP ones) are now automatically handled by
            adding a 'c_' prefix.

2009-08-03: wsfulton
            [C#] The std::vector<T> implementation is improved and now uses $typemap such
            that the proxy class for T no longer has to be specified in some macros
            for correct C# compilation; the following macros are deprecated, where
            CSTYPE was the C# type for the C++ class CTYPE:

            SWIG_STD_VECTOR_SPECIALIZE_MINIMUM(CSTYPE, CTYPE)
              usage should be removed altogether

            SWIG_STD_VECTOR_SPECIALIZE(CSTYPE, CTYPE)
              should be replaced with:
            SWIG_STD_VECTOR_ENHANCED(CTYPE)

            Some more details in csharp/std_vector.i

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-07-31: olly
	    [Python] Fix indentation so that we give a useful error if the
	    module can't be loaded.  Patch from Gaetan Lehmann in SF#2829853.

2009-07-29: wsfulton
            Add $typemap(method, typelist) special variable macro. This allows
            the contents of a typemap to be inserted within another typemap.
            Fully documented in Typemaps.html.

2009-07-29: vmiklos
            [PHP] Static member variables are now prefixed with the
            class name. This allows static member variables with the
            same name in different classes.

2009-07-29: olly
	    [Python] Add missing locks to std::map wrappers.  Patch from 
	    Paul Hampson in SF#2813836.

2009-07-29: olly
	    [PHP] Fix memory leak in PHP OUTPUT typemaps.  Reported by Hitoshi
	    Amano in SF#2826322.

2009-07-29: olly
	    [PHP] Fix memory leak in PHP resource destructor for classes
	    without a destructor and non-class types.  Patch from Hitoshi Amano
	    in SF#2825303.

2009-07-28: olly
	    [PHP] Update warnings about clashes between identifiers and PHP
	    keywords and automatic renaming to work with the PHP5 class
	    wrappers.  Fixes SF#1613679.

2009-07-28: vmiklos
            [PHP] If a member function is not public but it has a base
            which is public, then now a warning is issued and the member
            function will be public, as PHP requires this.

2009-07-21: vmiklos
            [PHP] Director support added.

2009-07-15: olly
	    [Perl] Don't specify Perl prototype "()" for a constructor with a
	    different name to the class, as such constructors can still take
	    parameters.

2009-07-12: xavier98
	    [Octave] Add support for Octave 3.2 API

2009-07-05: olly
	    [PHP] Update the list of PHP keywords - "cfunction" is no longer a
	    keyword in PHP5 and PHP 5.3 added "goto", "namespace", "__DIR__",
	    and "__NAMESPACE__".

2009-07-03: olly
	    [Tcl] To complement USE_TCL_STUBS, add support for USE_TK_STUBS
	    and SWIG_TCL_STUBS_VERSION.  Document all three in the Tcl chapter
	    of the manual.  Based on patch from SF#2810380 by Christian
	    Gollwitzer.

2009-07-02: vmiklos
            [PHP] Added factory.i for PHP, see the li_factory testcase
            for more info on how to use it.

2009-07-02: wsfulton
            Fix -Wallkw option as reported by Solomon Gibbs.

2009-07-02: wsfulton
            Fix syntax error when a nested struct contains a comment containing a * followed 
            eventually by a /. Regression from 1.3.37, reported by Solomon Gibbs.

2009-07-01: vmiklos
            [PHP] Unknown properties are no longer ignored in proxy
            classes.

2009-07-01: vmiklos
            [PHP] Fixed %newobject behaviour, previously any method
            marked with %newobject was handled as a constructor.

2009-06-30: olly
	    [Ruby] Undefine close and connect macros defined by Ruby API
	    headers as we don't need them and they can clash with C++ methods
	    being wrapped.  Patch from Vit Ondruch in SF#2814430.

2009-06-26: olly
	    [Ruby] Fix to handle FIXNUM values greater than MAXINT passed for a
	    double parameter.

2009-06-24: wsfulton
            Fix wrapping methods with default arguments and the compactdefaultargs feature 
            where a class is passed by value and is assigned a default value. The SwigValueWrapper
            template workaround for a missing default constructor is no longer used as the code 
            generated does not call the default constructor.

2009-06-16: wsfulton
	    [Java,C#] Fix enum marshalling when %ignore is used on one of the enum items.
            Incorrect enum values were being passed to the C++ layer or compilation errors resulted.

2009-06-02: talby
	    [Perl] Resolved reference.i overload support problem
	    identified by John Potowsky.

2009-05-26: wsfulton
	    [C#] Improved std::map wrappers based on patch from Yuval Baror. The C# proxy
            now implements System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<>.

	    These std:map wrappers have a non-backwards compatible overhaul to make them
            like a .NET IDictionary. Some method names have changed as following:
              set -> setitem (use this[] property now)
              get -> getitem (use this[] property now)
              has_key -> ContainsKey
              del -> Remove
              clear -> Clear

            The following macros used for std::map wrappers are deprecated and will no longer work:
              specialize_std_map_on_key
              specialize_std_map_on_value
              specialize_std_map_on_both

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-05-20: vmiklos
            [PHP] Add the 'thisown' member to classes. The usage of it
            is the same as the Python thisown one: it's 1 by default and
            you can set it to 0 if you want to prevent freeing it. (For
            example to prevent a double free.)

2009-05-14: bhy
            [Python] Fix the wrong pointer value returned by SwigPyObject_repr().

2009-05-13: mutandiz (Mikel Bancroft)
	    [allegrocl] Minor tweak when wrapping in -nocwrap mode.

2009-05-11: wsfulton
	    [C#] Improved std::vector wrappers on the C# proxy side from Yuval Baror. These
	    implement IList<> instead of IEnumerable<> where possible.

2009-04-29: wsfulton
	    [Java, C#] Add the 'notderived' attribute to the javabase and csbase typemaps.
	    When this attribute is set, the typemap will not apply to classes that are derived
	    from a C++ base class, eg 
	      %typemap(csbase, notderived="1") SWIGTYPE "CommonBase"

2009-04-29: olly
	    [Python] Don't attempt to acquire the GIL in situations where we
	    know that it will already be locked.  This avoids some dead-locks
	    with mod_python (due to mod_python bugs which are apparently
	    unlikely to ever be fixed), and results in smaller wrappers which
	    run a little faster (in tests with Xapian on x86-64 Ubuntu 9.04,
	    the stripped wrapper library was 11% smaller and ran 2.7% faster).

2009-04-21: wsfulton
	    [C#] Fix #2753469 - bool &OUTPUT and bool *OUTPUT typemaps initialisation.

2009-04-09: wsfulton
	    Fix #2746858 - C macro expression using floating point numbers

2009-03-30: olly
	    [PHP] The default out typemap for char[ANY] now returns the string up to a
	    zero byte, or the end of the array if there is no zero byte.  This
	    is the same as Python does, and seems more generally useful than
	    the previous behaviour of returning the whole contents of the array
	    including any zero bytes.  If you want the old behaviour, you can provide
	    your own typemap to do this:

	    %typemap(out) char [ANY]
	    %{
		RETVAL_STRINGL($1, $1_dim0, 1);
	    %}

Version 1.3.39 (21 March 2009)
==============================

2009-03-19: bhy
            [Python] Fix the memory leak related to Python 3 unicode and C char* conversion,
            which can be shown in the following example before this fix:
            
                  from li_cstring import *
                  i=0
                  while True:
                      i += 1
                      n = str(i)*10
                      test3(n)

            This fix affected SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize() so you cannot call this function with
            a null alloc and non-null cptr argument in Python 3, otherwise a runtime error
            will be raised.

2009-03-18: wsfulton
	    [C#] std::vector<T> wrapper improvements for .NET 2 and also providing the
	    necessary machinery to use the std::vector<T> wrappers with more advanced features such
	    as LINQ - the C# proxy class now derives from IEnumerable<>. The default is now to 
	    generate code requiring .NET 2 as a minimum, although the C# code can be compiled 
	    for .NET 1 by defining the SWIG_DOTNET_1 C# preprocessor constant. See the 
	    std_vector.i file for more details.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-03-12: wsfulton
	    [Ruby] Fix #2676738 SWIG generated symbol name clashes.

2009-03-01: bhy
            [Python] Some fixes for Python 3.0.1 and higher support. In 3.0.1, the C API function
            PyObject_Compare is removed, so PyObject_RichCompareBool is used for replacement.
            Struct initilization of SwigPyObject and SwigPyObject_as_number changed to reflect
            the drop of tp_compare and nb_long.

2009-03-01: bhy
            [Python] Fix SF#2583160. Now the importer in Python shadow wrapper take care of the
            case that module already imported at other place.

2009-02-28: bhy
            [Python] Fix SF#2637352. Move struct declaration of SWIG_module in pyinit.swg before
            the method calls, since some C compiler don't allow declaration in middle of function
            body.

2009-02-21: wsfulton
	    [Allegrocl] Fix seg fault wrapping some constant variable (%constant) types.

2009-02-20: wsfulton
	    [CFFI] Fix seg faults when for %extend and using statements.

2009-02-20: wsfulton
	    Fix SF #2605955: -co option which broke in 1.3.37. 

2009-02-20: wsfulton
	    New %insert("begin") section added. Also can be used as %begin. This is a new
	    code section reserved entirely for users and the code within the section is generated
	    at the top of the C/C++ wrapper file and so provides a means to put custom code
	    into the wrapper file before anything else that SWIG generates.

2009-02-17: wsfulton
	    'make clean-test-suite' will now run clean on ALL languages. Previously it only
	    ran the correctly configured languages. This way it is now possible to clean up
	    properly after running 'make partialcheck-test-suite'.

2009-02-14: wsfulton
	    Extend attribute library support for structs/classes and the accessor functions use
	    pass/return by value semantics. Two new macros are available and usage is identical
	    to %attribute. These are %attributeval for structs/classes and %attributestring for
	    string classes, like std::string. See attribute.swg for more details.

2009-02-13: wsfulton
	    Add support for %extend and memberin typemaps. Previously the memberin typemaps were
	    ignored for member variables within a %extend block.

2009-02-12: wsfulton
	    Remove unnecessary temporary variable when wrapping return values that are references. 
	    Example of generated code for wrapping:

	      struct XYZ {
		std::string& refReturn();
	      };

	    used to be:

              std::string *result = 0 ;
              ...
              {
                std::string &_result_ref = (arg1)->refReturn();
                result = (std::string *) &_result_ref;
              }

	     Now it is:

              std::string *result = 0 ;
              ...
              result = (std::string *) &(arg1)->refReturn();

2009-02-08: bhy
            Change the SIZE mapped by %pybuffer_mutable_binary and %pybuffer_binary in pybuffer.i from
            the length of the buffer to the number of items in the buffer.

2009-02-08: wsfulton
            Fix %feature not working for conversion operators, reported by Matt Sprague, for example:
	      %feature("cs:methodmodifiers") operator bool "protected";

2009-02-07: wsfulton
            [MzScheme] Apply #2081967 configure changes for examples to build with recent PLT versions.
	    Also fixes Makefile errors building SWIG executable when mzscheme package is installed 
	    (version 3.72 approx and later).

2009-02-04: talby
            [Perl] Fix SF#2564192 reported by David Kolovratnk.
            SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize() now handles "get" magic.

Version 1.3.38 (31 January 2009)
================================

2009-01-31: bhy
            [Python] Fix SF#2552488 reported by Gaetan Lehmann. Now %pythonprepend
            and %pythonappend have correct indentation.

2009-01-31: bhy
            [Python] Fix SF#2552048 reported by Gaetan Lehmann. The parameter list
            of static member function in generated proxy code should not have the
            'self' parameter.

2009-01-29: wsfulton
	    Fix regression introduced in 1.3.37 where the default output directory
	    for target language specific files (in the absence of -outdir) was no
	    longer the same directory as the generated c/c++ file.

2009-01-28: wsfulton
	    [Java, C#] Fix proxy class not being used when the global scope operator
	    was used for parameters passed by value. Reported by David Piepgrass.

2009-01-15: wsfulton
	    [Perl] Fix seg fault when running with -v option, reported by John Ky.

Version 1.3.37 (13 January 2009)
================================

2009-01-13: mgossage
	    [Lua] Added contract support for requiring that unsigned numbers are >=0
	    Rewrote much of Examples/Lua/embed3. 
	    Added a lot to the Lua documentation.

2009-01-13: wsfulton
	    Fix compilation error when using directors on protected virtual overloaded 
	    methods reported by Sam Hendley.

2009-01-12: drjoe
            [R] Fixed handling of integer arrays

2009-01-10: drjoe
	    [R] Fix integer handling in r to deal correctly with signed
	    and unsigned issues

2009-01-10: wsfulton
	    Patch  #1992756 from Colin McDonald - %contract not working for classes 
	    in namespace

2009-01-05: olly
	    Mark SWIGPERL5, SWIGPHP5, and SWIGTCL8 as deprecated in the source
	    code and remove documentation of them.

2008-12-30: wsfulton
	    Bug #2430756. All the languages now define a macro in the generated C/C++
	    wrapper file indicating which language is being wrapped. The macro name is the
	    same as those defined when SWIG is run, eg SWIGJAVA, SWIGOCTAVE, SWIGCSHARP etc
	    and are listed in the "Conditional Compilation" section in the documentation.

2008-12-23: wsfulton
	    [Java] Fix #2153773 - %nojavaexception was clearing the exception feature
            instead of disabling it. Clearing checked Java exceptions also didn't work. 
	    The new %clearjavaexception can be used for clearing the exception feature.

2008-12-22: wsfulton
	    Fix #2432801 - Make SwigValueWrapper exception safe for when copy constructors
	    throw exceptions.

2008-12-21: wsfulton
	    Apply patch #2440046 which fixes possible seg faults for member and global
	    variable char arrays when the strings are larger than the string array size.

2008-12-20: wsfulton
	    The ccache compiler cache has been adapted to work with SWIG and
	    named ccache-swig. It now works with C/C++ compilers as well as SWIG
	    and can result in impressive speedups when used to recompile unchanged
	    code with either a C/C++ compiler or SWIG. Documentation is in CCache.html
	    or the installed ccache-swig man page.

2008-12-12: wsfulton
	    Apply patch from Kalyanov Dmitry which fixes parsing of nested structs
	    containing comments.

2008-12-12: wsfulton
	    Fix error message in some nested struct and %inline parsing error situations
	    such as unterminated strings and comments.

2008-12-07: olly
	    [PHP] Fix warnings when compiling generated wrapper with GCC 4.3.

2008-12-06: wsfulton
	    [PHP] Deprecate %pragma(php4). Please use %pragma(php) instead.
	    The following two warnings have been renamed:
	    WARN_PHP4_MULTIPLE_INHERITANCE -> WARN_PHP_MULTIPLE_INHERITANCE
	    WARN_PHP4_UNKNOWN_PRAGMA       -> WARN_PHP_UNKNOWN_PRAGMA

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2008-12-04: bhy
            [Python] Applied patch SF#2158938: all the SWIG symbol names started with Py
            are changed, since they are inappropriate and discouraged in Python
            documentation (from http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/api/includes.html):

            "All user visible names defined by Python.h (except those defined by
            the included standard headers) have one of the prefixes "Py" or "_Py".
            Names beginning with "_Py" are for internal use by the Python implementation
            and should not be used by extension writers. Structure member names do
            not have a reserved prefix.

            Important: user code should never define names that begin with "Py" or "_Py".
            This confuses the reader, and jeopardizes the portability of the user
            code to future Python versions, which may define additional names beginning
            with one of these prefixes."

            Here is a brief list of what changed:

                PySwig* -> SwigPy*
                PyObject_ptr -> SwigPtr_PyObject
                PyObject_var -> SwigVar_PyObject
                PySequence_Base, PySequence_Cont, PySequence_Ref ->
                        SwigPySequence_Base, SwigPySequence_Cont, SwigPySequence_Ref
                PyMap* -> SwigPyMap*

            We provided a pyname_compat.i for backward compatibility. Users whose code having
            these symbols and do not want to change it could simply include this file
            at front of your code. A better solution is to run the converting tool on
            your code, which has been put in SWIG's SVN trunk (Tools/pyname_patch.py) and
            you can download it here:
            https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk/Tools/pyname_patch.py 

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2008-12-02: wsfulton
	    [Python] Apply patch #2143727 from Serge Monkewitz to fix importing base classes 
	    when the package option is specified in %module and that module is %import'ed.

2008-11-28: wsfulton
	    [UTL] Fix #2080497. Some incorrect acceptance of types in the STL, eg a double * element
	    passed into a vector<int *> constructor would be accepted, but the ensuing behaviour
	    was undefined. Now the type conversion correctly raises an exception.

2008-11-24: wsfulton
	    Add -outcurrentdir option. This sets the default output directory to the current 
	    directory instead of the path specified by the input file. This option enables
	    behaviour similar to c/c++ compilers. Note that this controls the output directory,
	    but only in the absence of the -o and/or -outdir options.

2008-11-23: wsfulton
	    [ruby] Apply patch #2263850 to fix ruby/file.i ... rubyio.h filename change in 
	    ruby 1.9.

2008-11-23: wsfulton
	    Apply patch #2319790 from Johan Hake to fix shared_ptr usage in std::tr1 namespace.

2008-11-21: wsfulton
	    The use of the include path to find the input file is now deprecated.
	    This makes the behaviour of SWIG the same as C/C++ compilers in preparation
	    for use with ccache.

2008-11-16: wsfulton
	    Fix -nopreprocess option to:
	    - correctly report file names in warning and error messages.
	    - use the original input filename that created the preprocessed output when 
	      determining the C++ wrapper file name (in the absence of -o). Previously 
	      the name of the input file containing the preprocessed output was used.

2008-11-11: wsfulton
	    [Java] Add patch #2152691 from MATSUURA Takanori which fixes compiles using the
	    Intel compiler

2008-11-01: wsfulton
            Add patch #2128249 from Anatoly Techtonik which corrects the C/C++ proxy
            class being reported for Python docstrings when %rename is used.

2008-11-01: wsfulton
            Add the strip encoder patch from Anatoly Techtonik #2130016. This enables an 
            easy way to rename symbols by stripping a commonly used prefix in all the
            function/struct names. It works in the same way as the other encoders, such as
            title, lower, command etc outlined in CHANGES file dated 12/30/2005. Example
            below will rename wxAnotherWidget to AnotherWidget and wxDoSomething to 
            DoSomething:

              %rename("%(strip:[wx])s") ""; 

              struct wxAnotherWidget {
                  void wxDoSomething();
              };

2008-09-26: mutandiz
	    [allegrocl]
	    Lots of test-suite work.
	    - Fix ordering of wrapper output and %{ %} header output.
	    - Fix declarations of local vars in C wrappers.
	    - Fix declaration of defined constants in C wrappers.
	    - Fix declaration of EnumValues in C wrappers.
	    - add some const typemaps to allegrocl.swg
	    - add rename for operator bool() overloads.
	
2008-09-25: olly
	    [PHP5] Fill in typemaps for SWIGTYPE and void * (SF#2095186).

2008-09-22: mutandiz (Mikel Bancroft)
	    [allegrocl]
	    - Support wrapping of types whose definitions are not seen by
	    SWIG. They are treated as forward-referenced classes and if a
	    definition is not seen are treated as (* :void).
	    - Don't wrap the contents of unnamed namespaces.
	    - More code cleanup. Removed some extraneous warnings.
	    - start work on having the allegrocl mod pass the cpp test-suite.

2008-09-19: olly
	    [PHP5] Add typemaps for long long and unsigned long long.

2008-09-18: wsfulton
            [C#] Added C# array typemaps provided by Antti Karanta.
            The arrays provide a way to use MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)
            and pinning the array using 'fixed'. See arrays_csharp.i library file
            for details.

2008-09-18: wsfulton
	    Document the optional module attribute in the %import directive,
            see Modules.html. Add a warning for Python wrappers when the
            module name for an imported base class is missing, requiring the
            module attribute to be added to %import, eg 

              %import(module="FooModule") foo.h

2008-09-18: olly
	    [PHP5] Change the default input typemap for char * to turn PHP
	    Null into C NULL (previously it was converted to an empty string).
	    The new behaviour is consistent with how the corresponding output
	    typemap works (SF#2025719).

	    If you want to keep the old behaviour, add the following typemap
	    to your interface file (PHP's convert_to_string_ex() function does
	    the converting from PHP Null to an empty string):

	    %typemap(in) char * {
		convert_to_string_ex($input);
		$1 = Z_STRVAL_PP($input);
	    }

2008-09-18: olly
	    [PHP5] Fix extra code added to proxy class constructors in the case
	    where the only constructor takes no arguments.

2008-09-18: olly
	    [PHP5] Fix wrapping of a renamed enumerated value of an enum class
	    member (SF#2095273).

2008-09-17: mutandiz (Mikel Bancroft)
	    [allegrocl]
	    - Fix how forward reference typedefs are handled, so as not to conflict
	    with other legit typedefs.
	    - Don't (for now) perform an ffitype typemap lookup when trying to
	    when calling compose_foreign_type(). This is actually a useful thing
	    to do in certain cases, the test cases for which I can't currently
	    locate :/. It's breaking some wrapping behavior that is more commonly
	    seen, however. I'll readd in a more appropriate way when I can
	    recreate the needed test case, or a user complains (which means
	    they probably have a test case).
	    - document the -isolate command-line arg in the 'swig -help' output.
	    It was in the html docs, but not there.
	    - small amount of code cleanup, removed some unused code.
	    - some minor aesthetic changes.

2008-09-12: bhy
            [Python] Python 3.0 support branch merged into SWIG trunk. Thanks to
            Google Summer of Code 2008 for supporting this project! By default
            SWIG will generate interface files compatible with both Python 2.x
            and 3.0. And there's also some Python 3 new features that can be
            enabled by passing a "-py3" command line option to SWIG. These
            features are:

              - Function annotation support
                  Also, the parameter list of proxy function will be generated,
                  even without the "-py3" option. However, the parameter list
                  will fallback to *args if the function (or method) is overloaded.
              - Buffer interface support
              - Abstract base class support

            For details of Python 3 support and these features, please see the
            "Python 3 Support" section in the "SWIG and Python" chapter of the SWIG
            documentation.

            The "-apply" command line option and support of generating codes
            using apply() is removed. Since this is only required by very old
            Python.

            This merge also patched SWIG's parser to solve a bug. By this patch,
            SWIG features able to be correctly applied on C++ conversion operator,
            such like this:
              
              %feature("shadow")  *::operator bool %{ ... %}

2008-09-02: richardb
	    [Python] Commit patch #2089149: Director exception handling mangles
	    returned exception.  Exceptions raised by Python code in directors
	    are now passed through to the caller without change.  Also, remove
	    the ": " prefix which used to be added to other director exceptions
	    (eg, those due to incorrect return types).

2008-09-02: wsfulton
            [Python] Commit patch #1988296 GCItem multiple module linking issue when using 
            directors.

2008-09-02: wsfulton
            [C#] Support for 'using' and 'fixed' blocks in the 'csin' typemap is now
            possible through the use of the pre attribute and the new terminator attribute, eg

              %typemap(csin, 
                       pre="    using (CDate temp$csinput = new CDate($csinput)) {",
                       terminator="    } // terminate temp$csinput using block",
                      ) const CDate &
                       "$csclassname.getCPtr(temp$csinput)"

            See CSharp.html for more info.

2008-09-01: wsfulton
            [CFFI] Commit patch #2079381