fix severe regression involving character arrays (fixes #137)

example/example.cpp

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void init_ex10(py::module &);
 void init_ex11(py::module &);
 void init_ex12(py::module &);
 void init_ex13(py::module &);
+void init_issues(py::module &);
 
 PYBIND11_PLUGIN(example) {
     py::module m("example", "pybind example plugin");
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ PYBIND11_PLUGIN(example) {
     init_ex11(m);
     init_ex12(m);
     init_ex13(m);
+    init_issues(m);
 
     return m.ptr();
 }

example/issues.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+    example/issues.cpp -- collection of testcases for miscellaneous issues
+
+    Copyright (c) 2015 Wenzel Jakob <wenzel@inf.ethz.ch>
+
+    All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+    BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+*/
+
+#include "example.h"
+
+
+void init_issues(py::module &m) {
+    py::module m2 = m.def_submodule("issues");
+
+    // #137: const char* isn't handled properly
+    m2.def("print_cchar", [](const char *string) { std::cout << string << std::endl; });
+}

example/issues.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import print_function
+import sys
+sys.path.append('.')
+
+from example.issues import print_cchar
+
+print_cchar("const char *")

example/issues.ref

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+const char *