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COM uses MIDL btw

• pjmlp 5y ago
  Sure, I should have been more precise.
• helloooooooo 5y ago
  COM/MS-RPC/MIDL are all different things. COM is build on top of MS-RPC and MS-RPC use MIDL to describe their protocol
  • __d 5y ago
    And MS-RPC and MIDL are derived from DCE's RPC and IDL. DCE's RPC and IDL were derived from Apollo's NCS RPC and IDL. I'm unaware of a direct link between NCS and Mach, but Mach's RPC and Matchmaker IDL (and the 'mig' tool) I think pre-dated NCS? Ironically, they're the basis for Apple's XPC today.