Issue 702: Levels of Indirection for passing COM types (comcorba-rtf) Source: (, ) Nature: Uncategorized Severity: Summary: Summary: Resolution: Revised Text: Leave the mapping the same: all in parameters are passed by value, out and inout parameters are passed by reference, Exception argument is double indirection to allow a NULL to be passed Actions taken: August 25, 1997: received issue/proposal Discussion: End of Annotations:===== Return-Path: From: "Daniel M. Foody" To: "'Keith Moore'" , "comcorba-rtf@omg.org" Cc: "mike.rosen@beasys.com" Subject: Spec. Proposals Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:08:09 -0400 For the call today, here are the proposals for some of the issues (the reference numbers are given relative to Keith's summary email that we went through last week). 2.1 Levels of Indirection for passing COM types Leave the mapping the same: - All in parameters are passed by value - out and inout parametes are passed by reference. - Exception argument is double indirection to allow a NULL to be passed.