Re: orbit-idl seg fault on simple .idl

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

>
> > My difficulty is that orbit-idl 0.5 seg faults and dumps core on the
> > following simple .idl file (this is a MODIFIED version of an OMG DTF file).
> > Sun's idlj compiler seems to like it just fine.  If I comment out the two
> > interfaces orbit-idl works fine.  If I comment out the second of the two
> > interfaces, orbit-idl produces output, but crashes after.
>
> This seems to be due to the recursion in
>
> >        struct ObservationDataStruct {
> >                QualifiedCodeStr code;
> >                sequence<ObservationDataStruct> composite;
> >                sequence<ObservationDataStruct> qualifiers;
>
> something as simple as this fails as well

I know Kennard hacked the 0.5.x orbit-idl to support recursive data
structs, but I don't know if those changes went into the stable branch or
just into HEAD... :(

-- Elliot
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