On 09/09/2015 12:03 PM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On 7-9-2015 16:39, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Idea behind cloop is to have descriptive idl file so that bindings for >> different types of languages would be generated automatically. >> >> Currently the idl grammar is simple and effective for C, C++ and Pascal. >> >> But we use intptr type for errors codes or strings. >> >> No matter how we improve the cloop grammar, one could not read/write >> this in Java. >> >> I think we should redesign the Status interface so one could read/write >> them in non native languages. >> >> BTW, I wonder, how could the Jaybird JNA interpret (read numbers and >> strings) status vectors? Or just it could not, always leaving the job >> for fb_interpret? > JNA can use pointers, and Jaybird does (with the old API). I don't use > fb_interpret at all. > > See for example (as part of status vector processing): > https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/blob/master/src/jna-client/org/firebirdsql/gds/ng/jna/JnaConnection.java#L110 > > The use of pointers is annoying, but not a big problem. > > I don't really understand why you'd use a pointer for an error code > though, that seems to be an unnecessary indirection. >
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