Follow-up to the scalar-only fix in #8754, per aothms's direct request on
that PR ("Please do make all int types consistent") and his own original
2023 design intent on issue #3058 ("make all integers (incl. schema
namespaces) an int64_t"). Widens the remaining inconsistent spots now that
compatibility isn't a constraint on this v0.9 branch:
- Integer aggregates (IfcTriangulatedFaceSet.CoordIndex and similar
List<int> attributes), including the SWIG to_vec_int/to_vec_vec_int
helpers, which previously silently truncated via static_cast<int> on the
Python-set path - the same bug class as the original scalar issue.
- The schema code generator (express/mapping.py's integer type mapping),
and all 12 generated schema header/source pairs regenerated to match, so
every schema-typed getter/setter (e.g. IfcOwnerHistory::CreationDate) is
int64_t end to end, not just the dynamic attribute-value path.
Instance/reference identifiers (STEP #123 ids) are deliberately left at
32-bit: they're a file-local index into internal maps, not an EXPRESS
domain value an application chooses, and no realistic STEP file has
billions of entities. The lexer's Token_IDENTIFIER parsing still funnels
through a 32-bit int for this reason - flagged as a known, low-risk gap
rather than fixed, since fixing it would mean touching indexing/hashing
code for no realistic benefit.
Verified: original PR's round-trip tests extended with aggregate cases
(IfcTriangulatedFaceSet.CoordIndex, InnerCoordIndices) at 64-bit boundary
values, in memory and through STEP text, IFC2X3 and IFC4. A standalone C++
program exercising the generated schema API directly (Ifc4::IfcOwnerHistory
::setCreationDate/CreationDate, IfcTriangulatedFaceSet::setCoordIndex/
CoordIndex) confirms int64_t end to end, bypassing SWIG. Full build
(BUILD_IFCGEOM, WITH_OPENCASCADE, BUILD_IFCPYTHON, IFC2X3+IFC4) clean.
test/util/test_attribute.py and test_file.py pass unchanged.
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Setting an IfcInteger/IfcTimeStamp typed attribute (e.g. IfcOwnerHistory.CreationDate)
outside the signed 32-bit range corrupted the value instead of raising, since the
Python wrapper's set_attribute_value_py() truncated it with a plain static_cast<int>
before handing it to the C++ storage. Unix timestamps before 1901-12-13 or after
2038-01-19 silently wrapped around (e.g. 3000000000 became -1294967296) rather than
being rejected or stored correctly. Fixes#3058, equivalent to PR #8683 but ported to
this branch's rewritten ifcparse (snake_case files, variant_array/instance_data
storage, SWIG PyObject-based attribute setter) instead of the old IfcEntityInstanceData
sources, which no longer exist here.
The scalar slot of the attribute variant (Argument_INT) becomes int64_t. Integer
aggregates (Argument_AGGREGATE_OF_INT, e.g. CoordIndex) and instance/reference
identifiers stay 32-bit, since neither is the value that overflows here; this narrow
scope is kept on its own technical merits (aggregates and identifiers were never the
source of the bug, and widening them would be a much larger, riskier change for no
benefit) even though aothms said compatibility isn't a concern on this v0.9-track
branch. express::Base::set_attribute_value promotes the schema-generated int to
int64_t at a single choke point, so the generated setters keep compiling unchanged.
The STEP lexer, writer, and SWIG wrapper (set_attribute_value_py, pythonize) are all
widened together, since widening only the Python-facing setter would have silently
wrapped the value on file write instead of raising.
Verified in a build (IFC2X3 and IFC4, BUILD_IFCGEOM off, no kernels): pre-1901,
post-2038, both 32-bit boundaries, and a 9e12 value all round trip exactly both in
memory and through STEP text serialization (write then reopen). A value outside the
64-bit range now raises a clean exception instead of corrupting data. Ordinary
in-range integers and integer aggregates (e.g. IfcTriangulatedFaceSet.CoordIndex) are
unaffected. The existing util/test_attribute.py and test_file.py suites pass
unchanged; test_entity_instance.py has 5 pre-existing failures unrelated to this
change (confirmed identical on an unfixed build of this branch, caused by a missing
get_info_2 binding and _patch_swig_comparisons never being implemented here).
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Fixes builds with newer GCC/libstdc++ that no longer provide <cstdint>,
<cstring>, <cfloat>, <memory>, <algorithm> etc. transitively. Also
disambiguates visit<> calls in taxonomy.h with the full namespace and
casts the character value in IfcCharacterDecoder to uint32_t to silence
ambiguous overload warnings.
Petru Conduraru