[Mono-list] Some news about a CORBA ORB implementation for.Net framework

Michael Meeks michael@ximian.com
30 Sep 2002 09:56:30 +0100


Hi Dietmar,

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:36, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:13, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	So, we'd implement a custom Mono object adaptor [ as do the Python &
> > gobject-adaptor bindings ], and it'd just work. The thing is while I can
> > explain what to do conceptually, it'd take me a long time to get into
> > the Mono C internals - since really, that's where the mapping has to
> > happen I think.
> 
> C#/Mono has that PInvoke feature, so you can simply call any C# method
> you want from C, just like a normal C function.

	Sure; the thing is we don't want to invoke a C method; we want to
marshal the arguments to the C ABI, and then invoke a generic method -
since it may well not be C at the other end of the invoke. But - yes, it
should re-use a big chunk of the PInvoke code.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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