[omniORB] limit on length of object IDs?

Carl Thompson cet@carlthompson.net
Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:27:41 -0700


After many hours trying to figure this out, I believe it was a problem 
in the compiler / binutils / glibc I was using.  At any rate I 
reinstalled known stable versions of them and this problem went away (I 
think; I'm still testing).

Thanks,
Carl Thompson

Carl Thompson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>      Is there a limit to the allowed length of object IDs?  I want to 
> encode a lot of information about my persistent objects directly into 
> their object IDs to minimize the accesses to persistent storage. 
> However, I seem to not be able to use object IDs of greater than 16 
> bytes or so with omniORB.  My favorite CORBA reference just says that 
> object IDs are just a sequence of octets and does not mention any limits 
> to the length of the sequence.  Does CORBA define a limit on the length 
> or is this a bug in omniORB?
> 
> Thank you,
> Carl Thompson
> 
>