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authorOlly Betts <olly@survex.com>2021-04-17 05:59:18 +1200
committerOlly Betts <olly@survex.com>2021-04-17 05:59:18 +1200
commit2629764e3f777adf60eed8922b1dc97cdff41169 (patch)
tree0e182f7c9e469585908f449e73494158e00b7c25 /Doc
parenta51a5c77f2ca9e9c5875d09b31fb3cf514de00c4 (diff)
downloadswig-2629764e3f777adf60eed8922b1dc97cdff41169.tar.gz
Remove remnants of attempts to wrap to PHP global vars
This isn't really workable since PHP doesn't support intercepting accesses to global variables (nor to static class properties, so we can't wrap C/C++ global variables that way either). The _get() and _set() function wrappers actually work and have been generated for a very long time.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Php.html b/Doc/Manual/Php.html
index 881b837e9..6a53b3189 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Php.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Php.html
@@ -306,8 +306,10 @@ print seki_get();
<p>
SWIG supports global variables of all C datatypes including pointers
-and complex objects. Additional types can be supported by using the
-<tt>varinit</tt> typemap.
+and complex objects. To support additional types, you just need to
+supply the standard <tt>in</tt> and <tt>out</tt> typemaps, which get
+used because of the wrapping as <tt>_get()</tt> and <tt>_set()</tt>
+functions.
</p>
<p>