Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API

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

 On 03/31/11 15:28, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>> On the other hand I see no problems with adding that method to our
>> interfaces, specially if it's needed to make Delphi people life easier.
>> It does not conflict with our versioning support.
>     Unfortunately it is not enough. To be binary compatible with IUnknown
> (not with Delphi itself but with well known stantard interface) we should use
> stdcall also. So, we can be compatible and abandon upgradeInterface, or 
> not compatible and don't add confusion introducing queryInterface.

Vlad, if really needed we can make 3 first functions in our interface to
use stdcall. This breaks nothing.