The
Client Stub
The client
stub module provides surrogate entry points on the client for each of the
operations defined in the input IDL file.
When the
client application makes a call to the remote procedure, its call first goes to
the surrogate routine in the client stub file. The client stub routine performs
the following functions:
Marshals arguments. The client
stub packages input arguments into a form that can be transmitted to the
server.
Calls the client run-time
library to transmit arguments to the remote address space and invoke the remote
procedure in the server address space.
Unmarshals output arguments.
The client stub unpackages output arguments and returns to the caller.
The MIDL
compiler switches /client,
/cstub, and /out affect the client stub
file.