[omniORB] Arrays in IDL and C++ mapping in OmniORB

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 3 August, "Frederic Prin" wrote:

> While reading the Henning & Vinoski book I found a difference between
> arrays and their mapping regarding the omniORB mapping.
> In fact, H&V distinguishes the array of fixed-length element and the
> array of variable-length (vl) element.

[...]
> void darrOp(Darr darr_inout)
> H&R (impl and objref) mapping is:
> 	void varrOp(Varr_slice * varr_inout)

H&V are wrong. See the C++ mapping, version 1.1, table 1.3 on page
107. inout arrays are passed just as plain C++ arrays.

> What happen, in OmniORB, if the Varr[0] sequence is reallocated in the
> servant method implementation ?

It can't be. The array is an array of sequence objects. You can't
replace the array elements with different sequence objects.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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