[omniORB] new IDL compiler

Renzo Tomaselli renzo.tomaselli@tecnotp.it
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:56:57 -0600


Ooops ! I missed a bit somewhere.
The 2.8 manual still reminds at page 109 as "user contexts are not supported
by the omniidl2 compiler", so I think I missed the point when this feature
was added to the compiler in the past.
Good work, that's what I was looking for.
Thanks,
                Renzo Tomaselli

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Grisby <dgrisby@uk.research.att.com>
To: Renzo Tomaselli <renzo.tomaselli@tecnotp.it>
Cc: Omniorb list <omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [omniORB] new IDL compiler


>On Wednesday 5 January, "Renzo Tomaselli" wrote:
>
>>     what about contexts kewords in the new IDL compiler ?
>> They were a well known missing point in the old Sun compiler, and a key
>> point as well for transaction management.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean does it support thinks like:
>
>  interface I {
>    void op(in long l) context ("foo", "bar", "baz");
>  };
>
>If so, then it does indeed support it. In fact omniORB 2.8's omniidl2
>also supports it, so maybe that isn't what you mean.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Duncan.
>
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