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Functions returning specialized Eigen matrices like Eigen::DiagonalMatrix and
Eigen::SelfAdjointView--which inherit from EigenBase but not
DenseBase--isn't currently allowed; such classes are explicitly copyable
into a Matrix (by definition), and so we can support functions that
return them by copying the value into a Matrix then casting that
resulting dense Matrix into a numpy.ndarray.  This commit does exactly
that.

Some Eigen objects, such as those returned by matrix.diagonal() and
matrix.block() have non-standard stride values because they are
basically just maps onto the underlying matrix without copying it (for
example, the primary diagonal of a 3x3 matrix is a vector-like object
with .src equal to the full matrix data, but with stride 4).  Returning
such an object from a pybind11 method breaks, however, because pybind11
assumes vectors have stride 1, and that matrices have strides equal to
the number of rows/columns or 1 (depending on whether the matrix is
stored column-major or row-major).

This commit fixes the issue by making pybind11 use Eigen's stride
methods when copying the data.

This makes the Python interface mirror the C++ interface:
pybind11-exported scoped enums aren't directly comparable to the
underlying integer values.

PR #309 broke scoped enums, which failed to compile because the added:

    value == value2

comparison isn't valid for a scoped enum (they aren't implicitly
convertible to the underlying type).  This commit fixes it by
explicitly converting the enum value to its underlying type before
doing the comparison.

It also adds a scoped enum example to the constants-and-functions
example that triggers the problem fixed in this commit.

Eigen::Ref is a common way to pass eigen dense types without needing a
template, e.g. the single definition `void
func(Eigen::Ref<Eigen::MatrixXd> x)` can be called with any double
matrix-like object.

The current pybind11 eigen support fails with internal errors if
attempting to bind a function with an Eigen::Ref<...> argument because
Eigen::Ref<...> satisfies the "is_eigen_dense" requirement, but can't
compile if actually used: Eigen::Ref<...> itself is not default
constructible, and so the argument std::tuple containing an
Eigen::Ref<...> isn't constructible, which results in compilation
failure.

This commit adds support for Eigen::Ref<...> by giving it its own
type_caster implementation which consists of an internal type_caster of
the referenced type, load/cast methods that dispatch to the internal
type_caster, and a unique_ptr to an Eigen::Ref<> instance that gets
set during load().

There is, of course, no performance advantage for pybind11-using code of
using Eigen::Ref<...>--we are allocating a matrix of the derived type
when loading it--but this has the advantage of allowing pybind11 to bind
transparently to C++ methods taking Eigen::Refs.

PyObject_SetItem and PyObject_SetAttr both throws an exception on
failure so this will show the underlying exception instead of masking
it.

Fixes #303.

This changes the exception error message of a bad-arguments error to
suppress the constructor argument when the failure is a constructor.

This changes both the "Invoked with: " output to omit the object
instances, and rewrites the constructor signature to make it look
like a constructor (changing the first argument to the object name, and
removing the ' -> NoneType' return type.

Otherwise this would create unknown option warnings under g++ < 6.

GCC-6 adds a -Wplacement-new warning that warns for placement-new into a
space that is too small, which is sometimes being triggered here (e.g.
example5 always generates the warning under g++-6).  It's a false
warning, however: the line immediately before just checked the size, and
so this line is never going to actually be reached in the cases where
the GCC warning is being triggered.

This localizes the warning disabling just to this one spot as there are
other placement-new uses in pybind11 where this warning could warn about
legitimate future problems.

This commit adds an additional _ template function for compile-time
selection between two description strings.  This in turn allows the
elimination of needing two name() methods in type_caster<arithmetic
types> and type_caster<eigen types>, which allows them to start using
PYBIND11_TYPE_CASTER instead, simplifying their code by eliminating all
the code that they are duplicating from the macro.

In eigen.h, type_caster<Type>::load():  For the 'ndim == 1' case, use
the 'InnerStride' type because there is only an inner stride for a
vector.  Choose between (n_elts x 1) or (1 x n_elts) according to
whether we're constructing a Vector or a RowVector.

Allows const types to be used by shared_ptr