Re: returning errors

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

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