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Re: call_external (IDL5.5) [message #29493 is a reply to message #29483]

Mon, 25 February 2002 07:28

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Mark Rivers wrote:
...

> There is one very important difference between CALL_EXTERNAL in IDL 5.5 and
> previous versions, which has to do with how IDL strings are passed. The
> following code is from "export.h" in IDL 5.5.
> ********************************************
> typedef int IDL_STRING_SLEN_T;
> #define IDL_STRING_MAX_SLEN 2147483647
>
>
> typedef struct { /* Define string descriptor */
> IDL_STRING_SLEN_T slen; /* Length of string, 0 for null */
> short stype; /* type of string, static or dynamic */
> char *s; /* Addr of string */
> } IDL_STRING;

Which points out he importance of using "#include export.h" to create
the typedef, rather than copying the typedef into your own code.

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[Message index]

		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 26 February 2002 10:43
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: R.Bauer on Tue, 26 February 2002 08:58
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: Mark Rivers on Mon, 25 February 2002 20:03
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: James Kuyper on Mon, 25 February 2002 07:28
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: Mark Rivers on Mon, 25 February 2002 06:56
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: notspecified on Mon, 25 February 2002 05:56
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: Gert Van de Wouwer on Mon, 25 February 2002 05:35
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: R.Bauer on Mon, 25 February 2002 05:19
		Re: call_external (IDL5.5) By: Gert Van de Wouwer on Wed, 06 March 2002 06:42

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