Trying to distribute foreign pointers makes the emulator abort with an error message

[sjmackenzie]

In platform/emulator/libdp/glue_mediators.cc, function glue_getMediator:

The type Co_Foreign_Pointer is not handled.
I believe it would be better to create an "unuable mediator" for foreign pointers and throw an exception on
the remote site if the fp is actually used.

Of course, it does not make much sense to distribute foreign pointers. But it can easily happen if some code (i.e. applied
functors) is distributed. And as long as the fp is not used, it does not do any harm.

[sjmackenzie]

Date: 2009-05-21 14:01
Sender: Raphael Collet

Patched the trunk (rev 17220).
Date: 2009-05-21 09:56
Sender: Raphael Collet

This is perfectly correct, foreign pointers are simply not
handled by distribution. As you wrote, they should be
distributed as "unusables", i.e., those values may be
distributed but are only functional on their home site.
A fix should be available soon.