Re: internal vtable format - name mangling?

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Georg Seidel wrote:
| Update of the format: to avoid memory leaks, the vtable will also store
| a pointer
| to a function that can be used to free itself.

Who is "itself"? Is it the vtable?

| Signature of this function is :
|      void (*)(void**);

void (*)(vtable_ptr); ?

| I did not check in the changes, because they are not fully tested yet.
|
| So the updated description is:
|
|  This is the format that is used to pass interfaces between plugins and
| the core.
|  The vtable for an interface A is an array of void pointers that is
| terminated by a 0 pointer.
|  The size of the array is 3 + num_funs(A), where num_funs(A) is the
| number of functions in
|  A  (this includes constructors, the destructor, methods and static
| functions).
|
|  The first pointer of the array is a pointer to a 0 terminated string
| with the interface name.
|  The second pointer is a pointer to a free_vtable function that can be
| used to free
|  the memory the vtable uses.
|  It follows a list of pairs (fun_name, fun_ptr), terminated by a 0 ptr.


typeof(a[0]) = const char* 0-terminated
typeof(a[1]) = void (*)(vtable_ptr)
typeof(a[2]) = // depends on the interface
...
typeof(a[n+2]) = // depends on the interface
typeof(a[n+3]) = unsigned int or void_ptr with 0 as value

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