[omniORB] Patch 39 breaks Visual C++ 5.0 - a fix

[David Riddoch]

Hi,

A couple of people have let us know about a problem MSVC has compiling the
library after applying patch 39.
(http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/bugs/39.html)

See below ...
David


On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Roy Ward wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've found that when applying the patches to omniORB 2.7.1,
> the file src/lib/omniORB2/orbcore/corbaString.cc breaks with
> an internal compiler error using Visual C++ 5.0 on Windows
> NT 4.0.
> 
> This is a bug in Visual C++, and can be worked around by
> replacing line 67 of src/lib/omniORB2/orbcore/corbaString.cc
> which contains:
> 
> #define ALLOC_BYTES(len)  (new char[(int)(len)])
> 
> by:
> 
> #define ALLOC_BYTES(len)  new char[(int)(len)]
> 
> (i.e. just remove the brackets).
> 
> This is a problem with Visual C++ rather than omniORB,
> but I'm pretty sure that the change above won't break
> anything else, so if this is a repeatable problem (i.e.
> not just me), it might be worth incorporating into the
> next release, or providing as a patch (patch of a patch ...)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roy Ward.
> 
>