[orbitcpp-list] More questions...

[Mike B. <mb...@co...>]

I was noticing in some of your test code that after calling
orb->string_to_object() you call obj->_narrow(). If my understanding
is correct, this is essentially a cast mechanism.

My first question is why is this done in orbitcpp but not in ORBit, is
it simply because C++ handles casting differently or is there more to it?
Also, the implementation of _narrow() appears to be calling _duplicate(),
is it truly allocating a new object and copying as the name suggests, or
just doing some refcounting?

Also, does one need to call CORBA::release() separately for both the
reference returned by string_to_object() as well as the reference
returned by _narrow()?

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TTFN
MikeB