Re: glib / CORBA integration examples ...

[Sam Couter <sam couter dropbear id au>]

Michael Meeks <michael@ximian.com> wrote:
> to glib users I imagine [ Tim ? ], a sticking point might be strings
> there - we currently offset the pointer to tag it as a string, rather
> than using a full smart header to save space there; can glib accept a

Which reminds me... Where does ORBit do whatever it needs to do in order
to guarantee that all memory allocations are aligned to two-byte
boundaries? Depending on the allocator and hardware alignment
restrictions, this is not always true. Things break rather badly when a
string is freed using a bogus smart allocation header.
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