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<refentry id="libIDL-2-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">10 Jan 2003</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>IDL

parsing library</primary></indexterm><refnamediv id="libIDL-2-3-name">

<refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>IDL parsing library</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libIDL-2-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>The <filename>&cmd;</filename> library provides an API for parsing

CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files and manipulating the resultant

parse tree. <filename>&cmd;</filename> is used by

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>orbit-idl-2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

the GNOME IDL compiler. No API documentation is currently supplied with the

library.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libIDL-2-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>The following files are used by this application:</para>

<variablelist termlength="medium"><varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so

</filename> </term><listitem><para>IDL parsing shared library</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libIDL-2-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>library/gnome/gnome-component</para></entry></row>

<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libIDL-2-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>orbit-idl-2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libORBit-2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libORBitCosNaming</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libIDL-2-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>Written by Mark McLoughlin, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.

</para>

</refsect1>

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