[omniORB] bug in CORBA::Fixed constructor

[Luke Deller]

Hi,

In omniORB (v4.1), the CORBA::Fixed constructor skips leading and
trailing zeros when constructing a fixed-point value from a string.
This behaviour also affects omniORBpy:

>>> CORBA.fixed('0123d').precision() # should be 4
3
>>> CORBA.fixed('12.340d').decimals() # should be 3
2

The code in corbaFixed.cc seems to do this quite deliberately, but I
think it is wrong:

Both the C++ and Python language mappings describe this string argument
with the phrase "the string representation of a fixed-point literal".
The CORBA specification (v2.6, sec 3.9.2) gives specific examples of
fixed-point literals, illustrating that leading and trailing zeroes are
significant.

Regards,
Luke.

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