Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API - was Re: Providers, yvalve, external engines and object lifecycle

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 03/31/11 02:07, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> On 30-03-2011 18:35, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>>> stdcall is incompatible with our approach to upgradeInterface. 
>>     Why ? I see no reason for it.
>>
> We add methods to vtable, which expect single "status" parameter, but
> user may call this methods with many parameters. Only cdecl would handle
> this.

To be precise - added functions may have no parameters at all, nothing
prevents them to throw exception instead of filling status vector. This
is a choice of one who is calling upgradeInterface().
And certainly yes - only cdecl calling convention may be used here.