Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,sgi.engr.c++ Subject: Re: Message dispatching Message-ID: <7500@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 9 May 90 23:44:51 GMT References: <7484@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com Lines: 17 In article <7484@odin.corp.sgi.com> robins@keyboard.esd.sgi.com (Robin Schaufler) writes: | invoke a virtual member function, and have it look up the address of | the function based on both the member function index and the pid. Current | ugly solution is to require the code to be in a shared library, and therefore | at the same address in both processes, but that's excess mechanism, and | shared libraries at SGI don't support breakpoints. I don't have any comments on the rest of your message, since I'm not really a C++ person, but we DO support breakpoints in shared library routines, at least in 3.3. Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.