[omniORB] Crash on narrowing root_poa

Duncan Grisby dgrisby@uk.research.att.com
Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:26:17 +0000


On Monday 10 December, "Krzysztof Czarnowski" wrote:

> obj = orb.resolve_initial_references("RootPOA")
> root_poa = obj._narrow(PortableServer.POA)
> 
> I get a crash! (quite nasty)

It's a silly bug. It's fixed now in CVS and the bugfixes patch. Thanks
for reporting the problem. As you have noticed, you never have to
narrow pseudo objects like POAs, since the ORB always has complete
type information about them.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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