[xad] pickling / unpickling self-relative (was: Re: Quick question on IDL)

[Luke Howard]

>just took a look at it, compiled up the encoding example,
>i notice that it sends the idl UUID at the beginning,
>plus the idl version number etc.

Hmm. That's no good for the PAC either... is there a way to
turn this off?

>it looks like what microsoft has done is to change the
>meaning of the pointer token field when pickling is used.

Unless their IDL declares an offset rather than a pointer
type? Seems unlikely for strings etc though.

-- Luke

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