Re: [orbitcpp-list] CORBA and C++ exceptions

[Phil D. <ph...@so...>]

Hi Petter,

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Thanks for the patch, but unfortunately it doesn't compile! 

Normally I'm not keen on adding extra functionality to ORBit-C++ over
and above what is in the spec, however in Henning&Vinoski's book* they
state that an ostream operator for Exceptions is likely to be in future
revisions of the spec anyway, so I'd be happy to accept a working patch
for providing this.

Some other comments:

Make sure that the standard C++ stuff is prefixed with std:: to remain
ansi compliant (I don't think g++ checks for this unless you give it the
right cmd line args)

I'm don't think I'm keen on having CORBA::Exception inherit from
std::exception. It's not in the spec, and thus it would make people's
programs behave differently if they port from a compliant ORB.

Following on from the above, the what() function isn't part of the CORBA
spec either, so I'd prefer if it was made private - you could then make
the operator<<() a friend.


Thanks again for making the effort to produce the patch; sorry if this
email sounded a bit critical - that wasn't the intention. If you come up
with a good ostream operator scheme, I'd be happy to update the compiler
so that UserExceptions use it as well.

Cheers,

Phil.


* 'Advanced Corba Programming with C++' Henning&Vinoski