Re: ABI problems ...

[Dick Porter <dick acm org>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 05:14:52PM -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thats one way. Other options might be to have another IOP profile, or to
do funky dynamic linker tricks to decide which ABI a particular .so is using.

> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.

- Dick