[omniORB] CORBA::Double type corrouption issue in python omniORB

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

 >> I do have seen problems recently with TAO on ARM where endianess is
>> causing problems. What is the value you get on the TAO side? Have you
>> run the ACE/TAO test suite on the target?
>
> Some ARMs have a bizarre mixed endian double, where the 64-bit double is
> split into two 32-bit words in big-endian format but then the 32-bit
> words are encoded in little-endian format.
>
> omniORB has specific support for handling thes mixed endian doubles on
> ARM. I don't know if TAO does, but I expect this is the cause of your
> problem -- either you need to configure TAO to use mixed-endian doubles,
> or TAO needs to grow support for them.

I don't think we have support for that, it looks similar to problems I 
have seen recently with the latest Android emulator. Do you know maybe 
which defines are set when we compile for this bizarre mixed endian double?

Best regards,

Johnny