[omniORB] Exceptions on Solaris

[alex agranov]

You definitely need the latest libC patch for C++ 5.0.  I installed it
on a 2.6 box, compiled omniORB with "-O2 -g", used the same flags with
my own code, and everything works fine.  Prior to that, any thrown
exception, or often something else, would cause a segfault.

In general, the 5.0 compiler is apparently a piece of shite, as I have
found no other C++ ORB that supports it (nor for that matter, very many
3rd party apps) and thus I am very happy that the nice folks at Omni
took the trouble to find out how to get their stuff running with it.
It's always a good idea to double-check such suspected compiler
maliciousness with another compiler, such as gcc 2.95.1, which I did,
and found that everything worked fine.

alex

Peter Ledbrook wrote:

> I've tried on a Solaris 7 machine, but get the same result. I've just
> asked
> for the compilers to be updated to the latest patch (11-1-00 for C++
> 5.0) so
> I'll see how it goes with that. I was mainly interested in whether
> other
> people have the same problem. As far as I can tell, a major problem
> these
> days is not knowing whether a problem is in your code or some
> sub-system used
> by your program.
>
> And of course, multi-threading and shared libraries double the fun :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter