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SWIG: Ensure ptrdiff_t is a known type in gcc >= 4.6.1

Review Request #1065 - Created Feb. 27, 2012 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Andreas Hansson
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SWIG: Ensure ptrdiff_t is a known type in gcc >= 4.6.1

This patch fixes a compilation error that occurs with gcc >= 4.6.1,
caused by swig not including cstddef and not using the std:: namespace
prefix for ptrdiff_t. There is an old patch,
http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/913/ that no longer applies cleanly and
this might be re-iterating the same issue.

We work around the problem by always enforcing the inclusion of
cstddef in all swig interface declarations, and also by explicitly
using std::ptrdiff_t.
compiled for all ISAs using gcc 4.6.2 and swig 2.0.4