Re: Non-typedef'd arrays in IDL files

[Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla ditec um es>]

Hi, Gergo

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:53:38PM +0200, ERDI Gergo wrote:

| Suppose I have the following IDL:
| 
|     struct Test_st
|     {
| 	long   num;
| 	string text[2];
|     };
| 
| Is this valid? (as opposed to requiring an explicit typedef, i.e.:
| 
|     typedef string MyStringArray[2];
|     struct Test_st
|     {
| 	long          num;
| 	MyStringArray text;
|     };
| )

First is non valid. Second it is. I have to check recent CORBA 2.6
additions, but I think they only change sequence related issues, and
also, ORBit2 does not adhere to that version of CORBA.

| 
| Also, according to the C++ CORBA spec, you need to define auxillary
| classes and functions for arrays (like T_dup or T_out), which is of course
| quite impossible without an explicit typedef.
| 

Yes. This is the case.

	Best regards!
	diego.

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