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authorJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2005-09-21 09:27:17 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:38:34 -0500
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r10381: Be a bit stricter on pod syntax
(This used to be commit 3f646c620a354ab6820c4a97d629e1e27978b76d)
Diffstat (limited to 'source4/pidl')
-rwxr-xr-xsource4/pidl/pidl31
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/source4/pidl/pidl b/source4/pidl/pidl
index 7ef30c32b7..57105b4472 100755
--- a/source4/pidl/pidl
+++ b/source4/pidl/pidl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
# Copyright jelmer@samba.org 2005
# released under the GNU GPL
+=pod
=head1 NAME
pidl - IDL Compiler written in Perl
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ both marshalling/unmarshalling and debugging purposes).
=item I<--help>
-Show list of available options.</para></listitem>
+Show list of available options.
=item I<--outputdir OUTNAME>
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ then assuming they contain IDL.
=item I<--dump-idl>
-Generate a new IDL file. File will be named OUTNAME.idl.</para></listitem>
+Generate a new IDL file. File will be named OUTNAME.idl.
=item I<--header>
@@ -132,12 +133,9 @@ C-style comments can be used.
=head2 CONFORMANT ARRAYS
A conformant array is one with that ends in [*] or []. The strange
-things about conformant arrays are:
-
-=over 1
-=item they can only appear as the last element of a structure
-=item the array size appears before the structure itself on the wire.
-=back
+things about conformant arrays are that they can only appear as the last
+element of a structure (unless there is a pointer to the conformant array,
+of course) and the array size appears before the structure itself on the wire.
So, in this example:
@@ -231,9 +229,19 @@ The following MIDL features are not (yet) implemented in pidl
or are implemented with an incompatible interface:
=over
-=item Asynchronous communication
-=item Typelibs (.tlb files)
-=item Datagram support (ncadg_*)
+
+=item *
+
+Asynchronous communication
+
+=item *
+
+Typelibs (.tlb files)
+
+=item *
+
+Datagram support (ncadg_*)
+
=back
=head2 Supported attributes
@@ -408,6 +416,7 @@ pidl README by Andrew Tridgell.
=cut
+
use strict;
use FindBin qw($RealBin);
use lib "$RealBin";