From 864165a44c441c853316e44b182236a4b2338fd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "gergely.erdelyi" <gergely.erdelyi@fccdda4b-c33c-0410-84de-61e1e3e5f415>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:38:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added support for retrieving large local types

---
 python/idc.py  |  6 +++++-
 swig/typeinf.i | 16 ++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/idc.py b/python/idc.py
index 94d5189..ac63413 100644
--- a/python/idc.py
+++ b/python/idc.py
@@ -6089,8 +6089,12 @@ def GetLocalType(ordinal, flags):
     @param flags: any of PRTYPE_* constants
 
     @return: local type as a C declaration or ""
+
+    @note: This function can return types strings up to 64KiB. Use idaapi.idc_get_local_type()
+           for larger types.
     """
-    return idaapi.idc_get_local_type(ordinal, flags)
+    res,str = idaapi.idc_get_local_type(ordinal, flags, 2**16)
+    return str
 
 PRTYPE_1LINE  = 0x0000 # print to one line
 PRTYPE_MULTI  = 0x0001 # print to many lines
diff --git a/swig/typeinf.i b/swig/typeinf.i
index 9591853..9353064 100644
--- a/swig/typeinf.i
+++ b/swig/typeinf.i
@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ til_t * load_til_header_wrap(const char *tildir, const char *name)
 }
 %}
 
+%cstring_output_maxsize(char *buf, size_t maxsize);
+
 %inline %{
 /* Parse types from a string or file. See ParseTypes() in idc.py */
 int idc_parse_types(const char *input, int flags)
@@ -255,21 +257,27 @@ int idc_set_local_type(int ordinal, const char *dcl, int flags)
   return ordinal;
 }
 
-char idc_get_local_type(int ordinal, int flags, char *buf, size_t bufsize)
+int idc_get_local_type(int ordinal, int flags, char *buf, size_t maxsize)
 {
   const type_t *type;
   const p_list *fields;
 
   if (!get_numbered_type(idati, ordinal, &type, &fields))
-    return false;
+    {
+      buf[0] = 0;
+      return false;
+    }
 
   qstring res;
   const char *name = get_numbered_type_name(idati, ordinal);
 
   if (print_type_to_qstring(&res, NULL, 2, 40, flags, idati, type, name, NULL, fields) <= 0)
-    return false;
+    {
+      buf[0] = 0;
+      return false;
+    }
 
-  qstrncpy(buf, res.c_str(), bufsize);
+  qstrncpy(buf, res.c_str(), maxsize);
   return true;
 }