Re: returning errors
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.hurd.l4 |
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| Organization | The EROS Group, LLC |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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