<p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">isn't it possible to pass a port reference (rather than a component reference) around?  if that is possible, the consumer could pass a port reference to the provider, and the provider wouldn't have to know anything about the type of the consumer component type and whether it uses a port array, an index, etc.</p><p><a href="https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/+/24401">View Change</a></p><ul style="list-style: none; padding: 0;"></ul><p>To view, visit <a href="https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/+/24401">change 24401</a>. To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit <a href="https://gerrit.osmocom.org/settings">settings</a>.</p><div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage"><div itemscope itemprop="action" itemtype="http://schema.org/ViewAction"><link itemprop="url" href="https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/+/24401"/><meta itemprop="name" content="View Change"/></div></div>

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