[omniORB] Wide string problems talking to Visibroker 4.5

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 30 July, Duncan Grisby wrote:

> As an experiment, can you try this patch and see if it makes
> Visibroker happy?

Oops. That's wrong. Try this one:

Index: src/lib/omniORB/orbcore/cs-UTF-16.cc
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RCS file: /project/omni/cvsroot/omni/src/lib/omniORB/orbcore/Attic/cs-UTF-16.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.8
diff -u -r1.1.2.8 cs-UTF-16.cc
--- src/lib/omniORB/orbcore/cs-UTF-16.cc	2001/07/26 16:37:20	1.1.2.8
+++ src/lib/omniORB/orbcore/cs-UTF-16.cc	2001/07/30 10:41:30
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@
   // Just to be different, wstring is marshalled without a terminating
   // null. Length is in octets.
   _CORBA_ULong mlen = (len+1) * 2;  // len + 1 for BOM
+  mlen += 2; // *** HACK!  Testing Visibrokenness
   mlen >>= stream;
 
   // Send a suitable BOM so that we can marshal with native endian,
@@ -269,6 +270,7 @@
     _CORBA_UShort tc = 0xfeff; tc >>= stream;
   }
   stream.put_octet_array((const _CORBA_Octet*)us, mlen-2, omni::ALIGN_2);
+  _CORBA_UShort nul = 0; nul >>= stream; // HACK!  Testing Visibrokenness
 }
 
 
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