[omniORB] long long 'and' any

[Gary D. Duzan]

In Message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980325142141.23307A-100000@jain.ittc.ukans.edu> ,
   Saravanan Radhakrishnan <rsarav@ittc.ukans.edu> wrote:

=>
=>
=>Hi !
=>I'd like to know if long long and 'any' have been implemented in 
=>omniorb. This is because when I had a long long in my IDL and
=>did omniidl2, it aborted. When I changed to Double, it worked.
=>Regarding 'any' I have no idea, though.

   It looks like there are some missing pieces in the TypeCode support.
For TCKind, the spec says:

  enum TCKind {
    tk_null, tk_void, tk_short, tk_long, tk_ushort, tk_ulong,
    tk_float, tk_double, tk_boolean, tk_char, tk_octet, tk_any,
    tk_TypeCode, tk_Principal, tk_objref, tk_struct, tk_union, tk_enum,
    tk_string, tk_sequence, tk_array, tk_alias, tk_except, tk_longlong,
    tk_ulonglong, tk_longdouble, tk_wchar, tk_wstring, tk_fixed
  };

while omniORB2/CORBA.h has:

  enum TCKind {
    tk_null     = 0,
    tk_void     = 1,
    tk_short    = 2,
    tk_long     = 3,
    tk_ushort   = 4,
    tk_ulong    = 5,
    tk_float    = 6,
    tk_double   = 7,
    tk_boolean  = 8,
    tk_char     = 9,
    tk_octet    = 10,
    tk_any      = 11,
    tk_TypeCode = 12,
    tk_Principal= 13,
    tk_objref   = 14,
    tk_struct   = 15,
    tk_union    = 16,
    tk_enum     = 17,
    tk_string   = 18,
    tk_sequence = 19,
    tk_array    = 20,
    tk_alias    = 21,
    tk_except   = 22
  };

Now I am looking at CORBA 2.1, so it may be that the TCKinds after tk_except
were not present in 2.0, which I believe is the reference for OmniORB. In any
case, since you don't have a tk_longlong, you can't put one in an Any.

					Gary Duzan
					GTE Laboratories