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Re: libmachuser vs libmach


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: libmachuser vs libmach
Date: 18 Jun 2002 14:55:45 -0700
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James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com> writes:

>  Ok, I'm not understanding why this is so.  Is a new RPC needed because the
> user of the rpc is expecting a message back that is a specific size?

Yes.  If you use MiG structs, then the interface itself has a fixed
specific amount of data.  Changing it to use MiG arrays (the C type is
still a struct) allows for the size to be variable.

> So in this case we can use a stack based object since we know the size of the
> struct at compile time. 

Yes.



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