[omniORB] problems with exceptions and anys

[Duncan Grisby]

On Sunday 19 August, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> I have a user exception that I catch in a client and want to report
> with a simple '<<' operator. OmniORB complains about
> 
> 'Error: function to insert the user exception into an Any is not available'

The root of the problem is that omniORB doesn't define stream <<
operators for exceptions, so what you're trying to do isn't valid. I
don't know why you're getting messages about Any -- I guess the
compiler is very confused and has generated code to do with Anys
rather than giving an error.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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