[bind10-dev] bind10 C message parsing API?

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isc.org
Fri Oct 2 23:29:46 UTC 2009


At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:11:37 -0400,
Robert Edmonds <edmonds at isc.org> wrote:

> > > to what degree (if any) will BIND10 offer a DNS message parsing library
> > > usable from pure C programs?
> > 
> > Good question.  I thought it was included in the project goals, but I
> > have no concrete idea about the degree of support.  To what degree
> > would you like BIND10 to support it?
> 
> well, i'd like to have something that could replace the message parsing
> capabilities of libbind and libldns, but from reading the archives your
> core message parsing code is/will be in C++.  is it possible to call C++
> code from C without some sort of wrapper?

I'd say it's impossible in practice.  So the question is what kind of
wrapper interface we should provide.

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JINMEI, Tatuya



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