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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: dcopidl vs DCOPReply
From:       Alexander Kellett <lypanov () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-01 6:01:12
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:05:47PM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> 
>    I'm going to ask one more time before I make the decision myself.  Which 
> one should be repaired, dcopidl or the DCOPReply code (which uses 
> dcopTypeName())?  dcopTypeName(long) returns "long".  dcopidl converts "long" 
> to "long int", which means that using longs with dcop idl doesn't work.  The 
> string compare clearly fails.  Likewise I see "ulong" as "ulong" vs "unsigned 
> long".  I'm sure there are more inconsistencies or missing conversions too.  
> This is a rather major bug in DCOP, IMHO.  I had code silently failing (only 
> a console message which was missed since it's a kded module) for days without 
> realising it.

imo the one if any that changes binary / network compatiblity
should be modified. at a guess this would probably be dcopreply.
therefore, and therefore. use of "long int". although the 
description someone gave of the c/c++ standards on this made
me think that long would be the prefered form. 

ciao,
Alex
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