Re: [orbitcpp-list] Re: cpp branch: CORBA_Object struct hidden?

[Sam Couter <sam topic com au>]

Murray Cumming <murrayc@t-online.de> wrote:
> What was the advantage of this? I'm increasingly thinking that there's
> no harm in the them being separate stub instances.

I wasn't with the ORBit-C++ project at the start, but there are a few
hints on the web page at http://orbitcpp.sourceforge.net/

* Little or no runtime overhead compared with C.
* Allow C programmers to use C++ objects without having to deal with any
    of that 'horrible C++ syntax'

> And there should be no harm in 2 CORBA::Object instances sharing the
> same underlying CORBA_Object - refcounting will take care of lifetime
> issues.

Yes, which makes things much easier for us. :)
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