Mapping the Interface Description Language Type Model into C

Karen Shannon; Richard Snodgrass

doi:10.1109/32.41327

Mapping the Interface Description Language Type Model into C

Karen Shannon, Richard Snodgrass

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Abstract

The Interface Description Language (IDL) is a notation for describing the characteristics of data structures passed among collections of cooperating processes in a programming environment. In this paper we discuss a mapping from IDL to C data structures and macro definitions that supports the full language and is type safe and runtime efficient, but is not particularly compile-time efficient nor easy to use. We then propose that the mapping be performed in a new preprocessor, thereby achieving all five goals.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1333-1346
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Volume	15
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/32.41327
State	Published - Nov 1989
Externally published	Yes

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Interface Description Language (IDL)
intermediate representation
programming environment
type model

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Software

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