[omniORB] Cross platform headers (windows, linux)

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 28 January, Vitaly Prapirny wrote:

> > The difficulty is that that file is generated by the IDL compiler, so
> > it cannot be patched in the omniORB distribution. The issue arises
> > because Windows doesn't support the long double type, so it can't
> 
> What did you mean ? All of bcc32(5.5), vc6, gcc(3.2 cygwin) successfully
> compile sources with long double variable.

Yes, but on Windows long double is the same size as double, 64 bits.
It is therefore not suitable for use as a CORBA long double, which
must be at least 80 bits.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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