Re: [orbitcpp-list] problems compiling orbitcpp-examples-0.2 with orbitcpp-0.30.4 under redhat 7

[Sam C. <sc...@bi...>]

Marcus Rosell <mar...@de...> wrote:
> I changed the declaration of helloWorld in "helloworld-impl.hh", but:

You need to change it in helloworld-impl.cc as well. The declarations
must match.

> why can't the interface declaration of helloWorld in
> POA_hellomodule::Hello be overridden in derived class?

Because that's just how C++ is. The method has the same number and types
of arguments, which means you're talking about the exact same method.
That means return types and thrown exceptions must match exactly.

> v2.96, the one Redhat is shipping with.
> I know people says it's crappy, but somehow they have compiled the rest
> of the system with it :-)

I was just curious. It's a real bug, and other compilers should also
whinge about it but don't.
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