opaque pointer conversions from Gottfried.Ganssauge@haufe.de

Acknowledgements for all


[SVN r17839]

doc/v2/acknowledgments.html

@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@
     <p><a href="../../../../people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> is
     the architect, designer, and implementor of <b>Boost.Python</b>.</p>
 
+    <p><a href="mailto:brett.calcott@paradise.net.nz">Brett Calcott</a>
+    contributed and maintains the Visual Studio project files and
+    documentation.</p>
+
+    <p><a href="mailto:Gottfried.Ganssauge-at-haufe.de">Gottfried
+    Ganßauge</a> supplied support for opaque pointer conversions,
+    complete with documentation and a regression test (and I didn't
+    even have to ask him for those)!
+
     <p>Joel de Guzman implemented the <a href="overloads.html">default
     argument support</a> and wrote the excellent <a href=
     "../tutorial/index.html">tutorial documentation</a>.</p>
@@ -63,6 +72,17 @@
     use the new preproccessor metaprogramming constructs and helping us to
     work around buggy and slow C++ preprocessors.</p>
 
+    <p><a href="nicodemus-at-globalite.com.br">Bruno da Silva de
+    Oliveira</a> contributed the ingenious <a
+    href="../../pyste/index.html">Pyste</a> (&quot;Pie-Steh&quot;)
+    code generator.
+
+    <p><a href="mailto:nickm@sitius.com">Nikolay Mladenov</a> contributed
+    <code>staticmethod</code> support.</p>
+
+    <p>Martin Casado solved some sticky problems which allow us to build the
+    Boost.Python shared library for AIX's crazy dynamic linking model.</p>
+
     <p><a href="mailto:achim@procoders.net">Achim Domma</a> contributed some
     of the <a href="reference.html#object_wrappers">Object Wrappers</a> and
     HTML templates for this documentation. Dave Hawkes contributed
@@ -71,16 +91,6 @@
     definition syntax. Pearu Pearson wrote some of the test cases that are in
     the current test suite.</p>
 
-    <p><a href="mailto:brett.calcott@paradise.net.nz">Brett Calcott</a>
-    contributed and maintains the Visual Studio project files and
-    documentation.</p>
-
-    <p><a href="mailto:nickm@sitius.com">Nikolay Mladenov</a> contributed
-    <code>staticmethod</code> support.</p>
-
-    <p>Martin Casado solved some sticky problems which allow us to build the
-    Boost.Python shared library for AIX's crazy dynamic linking model.</p>
-
     <p>The development of this version of Boost.Python was funded in part by
     the <a href="http://www.llnl.gov/">Lawrence Livermore National
     Laboratories</a> and by the <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational

doc/v2/reference.html

@@ -749,6 +749,22 @@
               </dd>
             </dl>
           </dd>
+
+          <dt><a href="return_opaque_pointer.html">return_opaque_pointer.hpp</a></dt>
+
+          <dd>
+            <dl class="index">
+              <dt><a href="return_opaque_pointer.html#classes">Classes</a></dt>
+
+              <dd>
+                <dl class="index">
+                  <dt><a href="return_opaque_pointer.html#return_opaque_pointer-spec">
+                          return_opaque_pointer</a></dt>
+                </dl>
+              </dd>
+            </dl>
+          </dd>
+
         </dl>
       </dd>
     </dl>
@@ -806,6 +822,29 @@
         </dl>
       </dd>
 
+      <dt><a href="opaque_pointer_converter.html">opaque_pointer_converter.hpp</a></dt>
+
+      <dd>
+        <dl class="index">
+          <dt><a href="opaque_pointer_converter.html#classes">Classes</a></dt>
+
+          <dd>
+            <dl class="index">
+              <dt><a href="opaque_pointer_converter.html#opaque_pointer_converter-spec">
+                      opaque_pointer_converter</a></dt>
+            </dl>
+          </dd>
+          <dt><a href="opaque_pointer_converter.html#macros">Macros</a></dt>
+
+          <dd>
+            <dl class="index">
+              <dt><a href="opaque_pointer_converter.html#BOOST_PYTHON_OPAQUE_SPECIALIZED_TYPE_ID-spec">
+                      BOOST_PYTHON_OPAQUE_SPECIALIZED_TYPE_ID</a></dt>
+            </dl>
+          </dd>
+        </dl>
+      </dd>
+
       <dt><a href="to_python_converter.html">to_python_converter.hpp</a></dt>
 
       <dd>

include/boost/python.hpp

@@ -44,12 +44,14 @@
 # include <boost/python/object_protocol.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/object_protocol_core.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/operators.hpp>
+# include <boost/python/opaque_pointer_converter.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/other.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/overloads.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/pointee.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/ptr.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/reference_existing_object.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/return_internal_reference.hpp>
+# include <boost/python/return_opaque_pointer.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/return_value_policy.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/scope.hpp>
 # include <boost/python/self.hpp>

include/boost/python/detail/dealloc.hpp

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// Copyright Gottfried Ganßauge 2003. Permission to copy, use,
+// modify, sell and distribute this software is granted provided this
+// copyright notice appears in all copies. This software is provided
+// "as is" without express or implied warranty, and with no claim as
+// to its suitability for any purpose.
+
+# ifndef BOOST_PYTHON_DETAIL_DEALLOC_HPP_
+# define BOOST_PYTHON_DETAIL_DEALLOC_HPP_
+namespace boost { namespace python { namespace detail {
+    extern "C" inline void dealloc(PyObject* self)
+    {
+        PyObject_Del(self);
+    }
+}}} // namespace boost::python::detail
+# endif	// BOOST_PYTHON_DETAIL_DEALLOC_HPP_

test/Jamfile

@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ bpl-test iterator : iterator.py iterator.cpp input_iterator.cpp ;
 
 bpl-test extract ;
 
+bpl-test opaque ;
+
 bpl-test pickle1 ;
 bpl-test pickle2 ;
 bpl-test pickle3 ;