Re: ORBit 0.5.16 patch for typecode IDs (was Re: Started a test suite - got a typecode error.)

[Huw Rogers <count0 metavector com>]

I made a minor change to your test case in conjunction with this patch
Alex - it's in CVS.

	-Huw

> A Perl CORBA::ORBit test revealed a problem with the static initializers
> of typecodes in ORBIT-0.5.16 typecodes.c - there was no repository ID
> and some of the names were inconsistent with IDL. Unless you attempt to
> introspect the system typecodes you won't see this, which wouldn't be
> common in C but is something people tend to do in dynamic environments
> like Perl.
> 
> The enclosed patch relative to 0.5.16 fixes this, and also fixes the
> alloca() configure problem on Solaris without impacting linux as far as
> I can test. Be sure to regenerate config.h.in from acconfig.h before
> distributing.
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> 	-Huw Rogers
> 
> > This needs a patch to ORBit-0.5.16, which I am testing now and will post
> > to orbit-list and here too.
> > 
> > > I've added a few tests to start off a CORBA::ORBit test suite. There is
> > > a test of orb initialisation, a test of the recent typecode work, and a
> > > simple any encode/decode. You can run tests using the usual "make test"
> > > rule.
> > > 
> > > Huw, the typecodesys.t test shows a couple of errors for me when testing
> > > the CORBA::Long case. (i.e. its id is empty and the name is "long"
> > > instead of "Long".). I get the same errors with both ORBit 0.5.15 and
> > > 0.5.16. Is this expected?
> > > 
> > > The user defined typecodeuser.t test cases are fine.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Alex.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Huw Rogers <count0 metavector com>
> -- 
> Huw Rogers <count0 metavector com>

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