[omniORB] Undeterministic behavior (UMR) in IOR generation.
Jan Lessner
jan@c-lab.de
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:20:15 +0100
shinji,
> A colleague of mine noticed that two IOR's that were
> generated based on identical input often differ. E.g.:
>
> IOR:0000000b0000002849444c3a6f6d672e6f72672f436
> ^^^^^^
> IOR:00ffe6d80000002849444c3a6f6d672e6f72672f436
> ^^^^^^
As far as I know the first long (i.e. 4 bytes) of an IOR contains only
one relevant bit telling about the byte order of the machine. All other
stuff has no meaning although I agree it would be nice if the rest would
be set to zero rather than leaving it uninitialized.
Regards,
Jan Lessner, C-LAB