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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-21 19:10:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-21 19:10:42 +0100 |
| commit | bd0ffbcc4e0f7abf5e811850fb9ebd93ca649966 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d544232d6871429713d2c761cd14f1ac6d3e926 /idl.mdwn | |
| parent | a5e3b5aeb7483586885f927bdb98a423e1531938 (diff) | |
Elaborate on DSLs, IDLs, code analysis, etc.
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@@ -9,11 +9,16 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -An *IDL* is an *interface definition language*. The most well-known is CORBA. +[[!meta title="IDL"]] + +An *IDL* is an *interface definition language* ([[!wikipedia +Interface_description_language desc="Wikipedia article"]]). A well-known one +is CORBA. These are [[DSL]]s. An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stub code that hides the transport details, and by this implements a [[RPC]] system. In the case of [[Mach's MIG|microkernel/mach/mig]], this hides the marshalling -and unmarshalling of parameters according to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s semantics, -and invoking the respective [[microkernel/mach/port]] operations. +and unmarshalling of procedures' parameters to and from +[[microkernel/mach/message]] format, according to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s +semantics, and invoking the respective [[microkernel/mach/port]] operations. |