[omniORB] omniORB 3 and the POA now available!

[Sai-Lai Lo]

>>>>> jon kristensen writes:

> I asked a few days ago about the plans for supporting the new IDL data types
> defined in CORBA 2.3 (longlong, etc), but have not seen a reply yet.

> As I understand it, these are not suppored by omniORB 2.8. What about v3.0?

> If not, what are your plans with respect to these types?

They will be supported eventually, probably before v3.0 goes out of
pre-releases. As I said before, there is no standard mapping for longlong
and longdouble if the C++ compiler does not have native support. In fact,
what good is it to define a CORBA::LongLong when you cannot even assign it
with a 64bit constant when the compiler doesn't have native support for
64-bit arithmetic? There are better and more urgent things to do than to
write a whole set of routines to simulate 64-bit int and 128-bit float
arithmetic. So even when it is supported, it will only have very limited
functionality with compilers that do not support 64-bit native. 


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