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libidl-2

libIDL-2.3(3)						 Introduction to Library Functions					     libIDL-2.3(3)

NAME

       libIDL-2 - IDL parsing library

DESCRIPTION

       The  libIDL  library provides an API for parsing CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files and manipulating the resultant parse tree.
       libIDL is used by orbit-idl-2(1), the GNOME IDL compiler. No API documentation is currently supplied with the library.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/lib/libIDL-2.so    IDL parsing shared library

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	     |
       +-----------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-component-arch-devel |
       +-----------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			     |
       +-----------------------------+-------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       orbit-idl-2(1), libORBit-2(3)

NOTES

       Written by Mark McLoughlin, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    10 Jan 2003 						     libIDL-2.3(3)