Re: determine type of an ident in libIDL

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Bowie,
	Just like Michael, its been a long time for me too and I can't really
help you. But take a look at the src/services/imodule for some ideas ...
there's some libIDL voodoo there too which sounds similar to what you
want ...

Good Luck,
Mark.

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:16, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 00:50, Bowie Owens wrote:
> > I'm working on the ORBit C++ bindings and need to determine the type of 
> > and ident using libIDL. I have the following test case which doesn't 
> > work. The problem is when the parser gets to method return type and 
> > arguments for the C interface it gets an _IDL_IDENT and assumes it is an 
> > interface.
> 
> 	Hmm; interesting - I believe libIDL is supposed to do this all for you
> internally; but it's been a long time - surely it should do all the
> fixups for you ?
> 
> 	ie. why pass an IDL_IDENT around when in fact you can pass an IDL_TYPE
> around that contains that information. Possibly the ->up node on the
> IDL_tree will be what you're looking for anyway.
> 
> 	Of course, possibly there is some better way - I have no idea; I only
> recall chopping huge chunks of the IDL compiler out, rather than
> anything else ? how does the C backend solve this problem ?
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.