Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API

[Vlad K. <hv...@us...>]

> 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.

    And all other functions still will be cdecl ? Don't looks as beauty to me :(

Regards,
Vlad

PS I'm not insisting on binary compatibility with IUnknown. I just want to make it 
    clear - are we compatible or not.