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Re: returning errors
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: returning errors |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:44:25 -0400 |
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:42 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> At least on the systems that I have worked with, it is rare to call an
> IPC stub directly; it is almost always wrapped by a library stub that
> at least massages the interface a bit and protects the caller from
> having to set up the environment. This code is usally written by
> people in the know. So, my question is: is this really an issue?
I believe so, mainly because I believe that adding wrappers to stubs is
a bad idea -- if you need to do that, then the IDL subsystem wasn't
designed right. As a case in point, I see no reason at all why the
CORBA_ENV pointer should ever have existed.
--
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
Re: IDL issue, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/07/09