[orbitcpp-list] Compiler Any support and sequence bug

[John L. <jk...@lu...>]

I managed to get the IDL compiler to eek out code for Any. Marshalling and
Demarshalling work
and I spent some to get operator functions made for user defined types. The
compiler patch can be
found at ftp://www.luebsphoto.com/pub/
There is also the beginnings of the CORBA::Any I mentioned earlier.
In hammering out the Any insertion extraction operator generation, I found
a bit a bug. The sequence
creation in the compiler uses that IDLWriteSeqSpec job. Well consider:
typedef sequence<long, 5> test_seq;
typedef sequence<long, 5> test_seq2;
The IDLWriteSeqSpec job should only run once, yet right now it runs for
both writeTypedefs for the
sequences. There are two possible solutions, the pretty/fast one, and the
kludgy one. The code
generated by IDLWriteSeqSpec job can be guarded by #ifndef, #define, #endif
so even though
the code appears more than once, there are no compilation problems. The
"better" solution is to
 have a map of CPPTypeNames of the sequences and the map is checked before
the a sequence
Write spec job is submitted.
I made a few changes to make this effect and ended up with
ftp://www.luebsphoto.com/pub/compiler2.idl.

John Luebs