IDL variable sized array of arrays problem

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 11:46 +0000 schrieb Amin Azez:
> This may be an IDL bug or a misunderstanding in my own mind. It's not
> holding me up, but I thought I'd mention it for interest:
> 
> This IDL:
> 
>     void proxy_Read(
>         [in] uint32 fnum,  /* file number as supplied by remote device */
>         [in] uint32 offset,
>         [in] uint32 mincnt,
>         [in] uint32 maxcnt,
>         [in,out,ref] uint16 *flags, /* read_for_execute, zlib, md5 etc */
>         [in] uint16 digest_count,
>         [in] [size_is(digest_count)] uint[8] digest[16][],
>         [out] uint32 *nread,
>         [out] [size_is(*nread)] uint8 data[]
>     );
>     
> fails on:
>         [in] [size_is(digest_count)] uint[8] digest[16][],
> with:
>   Compiling librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_proxy.c
>   librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_proxy.c: In function ‘ndr_pull_proxy_Read’:
>   librpc/gen_ndr/ndr_proxy.c:61: error: cast specifies array type
> 
> line 61 says:
>   NDR_PULL_ALLOC_N(ndr, r->in.digest, ndr_get_array_size(ndr,
> &r->in.digest[cntr_digest_0]));
> 
>  (admittedly that array structure was not a ideal, I was just getting
> something working):
Pidl doesn't support multi-dimension arrays properly yet. AFAIK midl
doesn't support it either and only supports arrays of strings.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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