Re: [orbitcpp-list] More questions...

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

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:08:24PM +0100, Phil Dawes wrote:
> Yep, because they are 2 seperate refs. (However, if you use _vars,
> this is done automatically when the ref goes out of scope)

Ah! So the basic difference between _ptr and _var is that _var handles
the refcounting? I've been using _ptr as _var causes a load of warning
messages from gcc-2.96.

Also, another question. I've been playing more with orbitcpp and am
having a bit of a problem. I tried using oaf with orbitcpp, but
liboaf does it's own orb initializion, through oaf_init(), which
internally calls CORBA_ORB_init. The problem with this is that
CORBA::ORB_init sets ORB_instance, which can't be set outside
orbitcpp_orb.cc. This later becomes a problem when you try to
call obj->_this(). Also, wouldn't having ORB_instance potentially
create threading havoc if someone wanted to have more than one
active orb? While at the moment I can't imagine why someone would
want to do this, you never know what strange things programmers
do.

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TTFN
MikeB