[okl4-developer] question on "string" and "smallstring" support

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:53:53AM +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> 
> Hum ... I am not sure that even the smallstring would work with the latest
> OKL4 release. 
> 
> The smallstring type is understood by magpie ans the code seems to be
> correctly generated but the smallstring type seems to be just missing from
> OKL4 header files. Therefore no compilation is possible.
> 
> Was smallstring "removed" on purpose or is this a mistake?

When Magpie generates the C header files it turns it into a char
pointer.  Hence, there is no "smallstring" type in the OKL4 header
files, for example.

Have a look at the generated header files.  If you are building
for the Iguana environment they will likely be in build/iguana/object.

	-gl

> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:35:19 +0530, "Kalamkar, Dhiraj D"
> <dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com> wrote:
> > smallstring should work. See the naming.idl4 in naming library
> > (libs/naming/include/interfaces/naming.idl4) for reference code. I had
> used
> > smallstring as in parameter but for using it as out parameter was causing
> > compilation problem in generated code.
> > 
> > --
> > Dhiraj
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: developer-bounces at okl4.org [mailto:developer-bounces at okl4.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jean-Christophe DUBOIS
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:53 AM
> > To: developer at okl4.org
> > Subject: Re: [okl4-developer] question on "string" and "smallstring"
> > support
> > 
> > So does anybody have a clue on the types that are effectively supported
> by
> > the 
> > OKL4 magpie compiler? 
> > Is there any documentation about it? 
> > Should I just forget about any "string" like support?
> > 
> > JC
> > 
> > Le Wednesday 16 July 2008 08:11:30 Jean-Christophe DUBOIS, vous avez
> > écrit :
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> According to the IDL4 compiler documentation
> >> (http://l4ka.org/projects/idl4/idl4_manual.pdf), the "string" type
> > should
> >> be supported. But if you try to use this type in an IDL4 file the
> > compiler
> >> will choke on it. So I assume the compiler described in the above doc is
> >> not at the same revision as the one used by by OKL4
> >>
> >> Looking in the OKL4 directories, it appears there is a type
> >> named "smallstring" that should be supported. Indeed if you try to use
> > this
> >> type the IDL compiler will happily swallow it. But then the
> > "smallstring"
> >> support seems to be missing from the C header files and the C
> > compilation
> >> of the implementation file will fail.
> >>
> >> So several question:
> >>
> >> - Where is the documentation describing the IDL syntax supported by
> > magpie
> >> as used by OKL4.
> >> - Is there a way to get the "string" or "smallstring" support?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> JC
> >>
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