diff -ur gtkmm-1.2.9.original/src/editable.gen_h gtkmm-1.2.9/src/editable.gen_h
--- gtkmm-1.2.9.original/src/editable.gen_h	Thu Nov  1 11:19:56 2001
+++ gtkmm-1.2.9/src/editable.gen_h	Wed May 22 11:13:19 2002
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 namespace Gtk
 {
 
-  string Editable::get_chars (int start_pos = 0, int end_pos = - 1) const
+  string Editable::get_chars (int start_pos, int end_pos) const
   {
       gchar *chars = gtk_editable_get_chars (GTK_EDITABLE (gtkobj ()), start_pos, end_pos);
       string ret_val = chars;