Re: Any more regressions?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 01:30, Bowie Owens wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> I think orbitcpp is behaving itself pretty well now that the changes 
> have settled. So there doesn't seem to be any problem there.
> 
> I have spent a little time cleaning out bugzilla. This included getting 
> the any/simple test to work properly.

I have looked at it yet, but I was very pleased to hear that this was
fixed. I had almost given up on it.

>  So what we are left with is:
> 
>     * everything.idl doesn't compile because we don't support arrays
>       within unions properly, but this didn't work before. This will
>       require a bit of work. We need a new interface and virtual
>       functions for correctly generating the accessor functions for
>       union members. See the comments in the bug report.
>     * WRITE ME bug indicating things that aren't finished.
>     * Exceptions not defined problem. I need to spend some time
>       reflecting on the standard and what other idl compilers do.
> 
> Since the 1.3.6 release the following improvements have been made:
> 
>     * Simplified c++ output.
>     * Improved any support.
>     * Reduced the number of leaked references.
>     * Eliminated a number of dereference null pointer type errors.
> 
> It might be worth making a new release soon. So we can bump the required 
> version of orbitcpp in libbonobomm to match.

Yes, I would like that. Do you have a widget account now?
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