Re: ORBit2 and checking CORBA_Environent's

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> My understanding (from memory) is that the return value should
> be completely ignored by the skeleton if an exception is thrown. 
> Certainly a CORBA method that throws an object is not allowed
> to return a value as well ... this would be completely
> incompatible with all languages with real exceptions.
> 
> (Also, there is no marshalling of return values over the
> wire when an exception is thrown.)

That's also what I had in memory, but it's not what the current code
does. It tries to free the returned value and thus crashes.

> In the above suggestion, I was really suggesting that the stub should
> return 0xbad, if an exception is thrown, not the individual server
> side functions.

Yes, good idea.

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Martin Baulig
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