[omniORB] SCO Unixware 7 port & support

[Marcus Bullingham]

It's actually gcc version 2.95.2, which as far as I know does support
thread-safe exceptions, and anyway it is the same compiler we are using on
Linux - which does not suffer from the same problem when running omniORB.
However, I guess it's not quite as simple as which compiler (& version) I am
using... the compiled code will be dependent upon various OS specific
libraries (& other magic). So, I will trawl the gnu & SCO webs to find out
more information...

Once I have solved the problem, and done enough testing to be confident with
the port, I will send you the updates for UW7 support. Would you prefer this
by email, or can I get access to the repository? (We run CVS here at
Aculab).

Thanks very much,

Marcus.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Duncan Grisby [SMTP:dgrisby@uk.research.att.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:10 AM
> To:	Marcus Bullingham
> Cc:	omniORB mailing list
> Subject:	Re: [omniORB] SCO Unixware 7 port & support 
> 
> On Monday 7 August, Marcus Bullingham wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience of running omniORB 3.0 (or any x.y?) on
> SCO
> > Unixware 7 that they can share? Does anyone have any suggestions to
> explain
> > the problems I have seen, and the workarounds I am using? Our current
> > project will make use of omniORB on Linux, Solaris, NT & SCO UW7. The
> first
> > three platforms are explicitly supported by omniORB, but UW7 seems to be
> > lacking in real support. Can I feedback the changes I have made (once I
> am
> > confident with them) in the hope that UW7 will be supported in future
> > versions of omniORB?
> 
> I'm afraid we can't help much with porting to Unixware, but please
> send us the patches you make, and we'll include them in the omniORB
> distribution.
> 
> You say that you had core dumps when the ORB threw exceptions. That's
> worrying since it suggests that maybe exception handling is not thread
> safe. That is a problem on several other platforms (Alpha Linux for
> one). What compiler are you using?  Does it claim to support
> thread-safe exceptions?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
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