sca-c-cpp message

Subject: Proposed revised wording for issues 73 & 75

From: Bryan Aupperle <aupperle@us.ibm.com>
To: sca-c-cpp@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:41:06 -0400

Here is my proposed wording for the conformance points we discussed today.

For C++:
An SDO DataObjectPtr instance. This type may be passed by-value, by-reference, or by-pointer. Unless the member function and client indicate that they allow by-reference semantics (See AllowsPassByReference), a deep-copy of the DataObjectPtr will be created by the runtime for any parameters passed by-value, by-reference, or by-pointer. When by-reference semantics are allowed, the DataObjectPtr itself will be passed.

For C:
An SDO DATAOBJECT. This type may be passed by-value or by-pointer. Unless the function and client indicate that they allow by-reference semantics (See AllowsPassByReference), a deep-copy of the DATAOBJECT will be created by the runtime for any parameters passed by-value or by-pointer. When by-reference semantics are allowed, the DATAOBJECT handle will be passed.

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
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