Re: freeing CORBA arguments

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Diego,

On 5 Sep 2001, Diego González wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 10:41, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hi Diego,
> >
> > On 4 Sep 2001, Diego González wrote:
> >
> > > 	i want to avoid duplicating them, is there any way to do that?
> >
> > 	No, fortunately, there isn't ;)
>
> i have taken a look at the CORBA C mapping spec from OMG,
> is it possible to use CORBA_*_set_release functions to avoid
> having to free the values?

	This is not what these functions are intended for. Basically,
if a sequence or any has a _buffer that has been allocated from the
heap, this should be  set to TRUE.

	The fact is - if you don't want the data allocated by the ORB
for the duration of a method invocation to go away - you need to 'dup'
it. Trying to get around this is playing with fire. Why is it so
important to you to circumvent this behaviour?

Cheers,
Mark.