Re: [orbitcpp-list] various stuff

[Phil D. <ph...@us...>]

Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
> 
> Hi Phil,
> 
> * I put some blurb about the compiler design into the HACKING file,
> please have a look because I am not so sure anyone will be able to see
> what i meant :((
> 

This is cool - I thought you said you didn't like writing documentation
;-)

> * Can we agree on some standard for doing the
> m_header
> << indent << "int u;" << endl
> << indent << "blah" << endl;
> things? (This is suggestive because it presents the way I propose to do
> it :)
> 

That's why I asked you for your .emacs file ;-)
I quite like your << style - lets use that.

> * Hey, you duplicated code from pass_xlate in pass_stub! All this _var
> and _out stuff is already declared there! (have a look at the
> *-common.hh file...) i believe it should o there because people may well
> want objrefs in their structs and stuff. ain't it so? :)))))

Doh! - you're right. Feel free to do the right thing :-)

> * I've got two things that I'll be hacking tonight:
> 1) make the skels work
> 2) implement all the MI stuff for the stubs that we talked about
> I don't know how far I'll get with either one, so if you want to avoid
> having to go to the pub :)) feel free to mail me, I'll be checking my
> mails about every hour.
> 

Okay, I've implemented that orbit-idl --backenddir=<our shared library
dir> flag in ORBit that I've been harping on about, and now I'm just
sticking the autoconf stuff to detect its presence and react
accordingly.

Actually, I am going to the pub in about half an hour, so I don't think
I'll be doing much more. 

Cheers,

Phil.