From: Immanuel Scholz <news@kutzsche.net>
Subject: Re: thick? thin? binding
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:50:12 +0200
Date: 2002-06-19T21:50:12+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeqn6l$9f20t$1@ID-100557.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ulm9bul0l.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephen Leake wrote:
> A "Thick binding" to Win32 would use either Ada access types or just
> "in out" parameters, instead of System.Address. It would also use Ada
> String instead of null-terminated strings. Typically, this requires
> intermediate code to convert between the too. The amount of this
> intermediate code determines the "thickness" of the binding.
So the MFC is a thick binding from Win32-C-API to C++ ? :-)
(Err, in some places this binding is really thin).
This also means thick binding is better but slower.
Immanuel Scholz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-19 18:53 thick? thin? binding Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-19 19:22 ` tmoran
2002-06-19 19:27 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-19 19:50 ` Immanuel Scholz [this message]
2002-06-19 20:25 ` tmoran
2002-06-19 19:27 ` chris.danx
2002-06-19 19:28 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 14:12 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-21 1:29 ` David Emery
2002-06-26 0:23 ` tmoran
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