Re: IDL->C mapping question

[Olivier Andrieu <oliv__a users sourceforge net>]

Hi,

 Michael Meeks [ 2 June 2003] :
 > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:22, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
 > > I'm writing ORBit2 bindings for the programming language
 > > Objective Caml
 > 
 > That's great news :-) have you seen James H's python bindings ? I
 > think that's the recommended code base to work from; he is using
 > the in-proc ABI bridge - which will allow the binding to be
 > auto-generated [ if you're a non-strongly-typed / late-binding
 > language ]. It also has the nice advantage of allowing
 > cross-language method invocations within a couple of stack-frames
 > in-process; so Caml->Python C->Caml etc. all become very efficient.

OCaml is a very-strongly-typed / as-static-as-possible language, quite
the opposite of Python actually :). Right now I have a program that
parses the IDL and outputs Caml code and C code to interface with the
C stubs generated by orbit-idl-2. 

But I'll have a look at this in-proc ABI bridge (sounds interesting).

Thanks for the info,

-- 
   Olivier