DCE 1.2.2 released under LGPL license (strategically important for Wine)
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at lkcl.net
Mon Jan 17 15:52:32 CST 2005
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:51:54PM -0600, Rob Shearman wrote:
> We already have our own IDL parser. The only step left is for it to
> generate appropriate type format strings in the same format as Microsoft
> use.
i believe i know what you are referring to: matthew chapman wrote a
reverser which looked for the state table, looking for the uuid and
then offsetting from that in order to decode the state table _back_
into an IDL file - without of course the function names and variable
and structure names.
FreeDCE's IDL compiler has almost EXACTLY the same state table.
why?
because FreeDCE is the DCE 1.1 reference implementation which is
available and has been available for approx ten years under the
OSF 1.0 BSD-compatible license, so _guess_ where microsoft got their
IDL compiler from?
:)
believe me when i say that duplicating this code is just... nuts when
it already exists.
l.
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