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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:02:39AM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> >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?
 
reading?  yes.  writing?  no.

> >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? 

... no.

> Seems unlikely for strings etc though.

believe it or not...