Method DownCast() is made template, to be available only when argument is actually a pointer or handle to a base class.
For compatibility with existing code, method DownCast() that can be used for the same type, derived, or unrelated class (i.e. where there is no actual down casting) is still available, its use shall cause "deprecated" compiler warning.
OCCT code is updated to remove meaningless DownCast()s; a few places where DownCast() was used with argument of unrelated type are corrected.
DRAW command QAHandleCast is removed (it was useful only during redesign of handles).
Copy constructor and assignment operator from handle of derived type is added in handle class.
They are enabled only if macro OCC_HANDLE_NOCASTS is defined, and operators of cast of handle to reference to handle to base type are disabled in that case.
Useless type casts to handle to base type are removed in GC and GCE2d classes.
Code returning reference to handle from function is corrected to return it either by value or as reference to handle of actual type.
Operator of cast to non-const reference is declared deprecated to produce compiler warning if used (usually implicitly).
OCCT code is updated to avoid that cast, occurring when function accepting non-const reference to handle is called with handle to derived type.
For that, local variable of argument type is passed instead, and down-cast is used to get it to desired type after the call.
A few occurrences of use of uninitialized variable are corrected.
Global type descriptors are restored for VC++ 10 - 12 and GCC before 4.3.
Checks of compiler support of C++ features are corrected for GCC, ICC, and CLang in Standard_Handle.hxx
A new script adm/upgrade.tcl defines a Tcl procedure occt_upgrade, to be used for upgrading code of OCCT and applications for changes introduced by OCCT 7.0.
Batch script upgrade.bat is provided for convenience.
File upgrade.dat contains data (lists of classes) required for some upgrade steps.
Details on upgrade procedure are put in dox/dev_guides/upgrade/upgrade.md.
OCCT code corrected to improve compatibility with code based on previous versions of OCCT:
- Added conversion operator of handle to bool, for use in conditional expressions.
- Forward declaration of argument class restored in macro DEFINE_STANDARD_HANDLE.
- Includes of used classes added in some headers to avoid problem of missing includes in dependent code
- Type cast operators to base curve and surface added in GC and GCE2d classes to reduce porting issues.
Added test for local reference to handle initialized by temporary handle to derived class.
WOK and CDL User Guides removed.
Test commands for checking performance and functionality of OCCT handles and RTTI added.
New test case added for that: test perf fclasses handle.
Implementation of opencascade::handle improved to enable compile-time error if two handles of incompatible types are compared.
Comparison of handle to NULL is not possible any more; method IsNull() should be used instead.
Method LDOM_MemManager::Doc() is removed to avoid cyclic dependency of headers; constructor of LDOM_Document(LDOM_MemManager&) is used directly instead.
Inclusion of headers corrected for compilation after previous patch.
Macro defining Handle class is replaced by template class implementing the same concept (defined in Standard_Handle.hxx and Standard_Transient.hxx), opencascade::handle<>.
Header file Standard_DefineHandle.hxx becomes deprecated: the only useful macro DEFINE_STANDARD_RTTI is defined now in Standard_Type.hxx. Standard_DefineHandle.hxx is kept for compatibility, it defines macros previously used for definition of Handles and RTTI as empty. Macro DEFINE_STANDARD_HANDLE(C1,C2) is also kept for compatibility; now it expands to typedef "Handle_C1" to corresponding handle class.
Definitions of macro Handle() and STANDARD_TYPE() moved from Standard_Macro.hxx to Standard_Handle.hxx (new file) and Standard_Type.hxx, respectively.
New template class NCollection_Shared added, allowing to define sub-class manipulated by handle, for any non-transient class.
Adaptations for compiling with GCC 4.7
