[omniORB] What the difference betwen long & double

[Sai-Lai Lo]

boris@imagine-sw.com (Boris Khanales) writes:

> > Could you define "does not work"?  Compiler error?
> The problem is realy bad. I can not reproduce it on stand
> along small app. The problem seems to me in 
> 
> any <<= double
> CORBA::Any::NP_replace
> MemBufferedStream &MemBufferedStream::operator= (const MemBufferedStream & m)
> MemBufferedStream::copy(const MemBufferedStream &m) 
>   memcpy(startofstream(),m.startofstream(),
> 	 (omni::ptr_arith_t)m.pd_out_mkr - 
> (omni::ptr_arith_t)m.startofstream());
> 	 
> But I'm not realy sure.  At one moment I thought it's an alignment
> problem and startofstream() does not return correct offset, but I still
> do not understand what exactly happening. When I invoke method it throw
> exception I'm on SunOS 5.5 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 and
> CORBA::Double does not help.

> If I will not solve it within next 2-3 days I'm going to try my own
> Doule (as stupid as long [2]), but ...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> PS I realize that stand along app will be a greate help, but it works.

I suspect there is a bug lurking in your program which corrupts
memory. (For instance, access memory area which has been freed.) The
bug finally surface in any <<= double but has nothing to do with it. 

Do you have purify? It might help you to locate where the problem is.

Just an idea.

Sai-Lai

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