Re: [Orbit-python-list] Problem with parsing of recursive structs in IDL

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Brad Chapman wrote:

> narrowing down, it appears as if this is a minimal IDL that will
> cause the problem:
>
> struct RecursiveStruct {
>   sequence <RecursiveStruct> inner_struct;
> };
>
> interface ProblemInterface {
>   attribute RecursiveStruct problem_item;
> };

Minimal, but 3vil. Do you have a simple test script I can integrate to the
test-suite so we guarantee it's fixed and stays fixed over versions?

> The idea is that you have a struct that has, as one of its member, a
> list of itself (in the IDL that I'm working on this is used to descend
> a sort of "tree" of items). When a struct like this is present inside
> an interface, it will cause the problem. gdb gives a trace that looks
> like:

By list of itself you mean "list of things of the same type as it", right?

Take care,
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