ABI problems ...

[Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>]

Hi Dick,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dick Porter wrote:
> > 	Now; the problem comes when a non-C language ( eg. Owen's
> > ORBit-perl ) tries to access these methods. 
> 
> We should keep the ultra-fast C ABI shared objects, but I don't see any reason
> why you can't add an option to the IDL compiler to generate marshalled
> parameter passing. It would basically be GIOP over shared memory.

	Yes; but then how do you access the shared objects with the C ABI,
in short you can't. Of course, perhaps I suggested the wrong
solution. Perhaps the correct thing to do is to have a generic marshalled
<-> C ABI bridge built into ORBit that does all the horrible evilness that
is neccessary to make this work in 1 place.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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