[omniORB] Sequence of Sequence causes client compiler errors!!!

[Gary D. Duzan]

In Message <36bec4c1.102551527@smtp.ne.mediaone.net> ,
   dmorgen@alum.mit.edu (David Morgenlender) wrote:

=>IAE, I still don't understand why this compiles:
=>
=>	Tests::TestResultsList* seqResults;
=>	INTERFACE_TESTS-> Test(seqResults);
=>
=>and this does not:
=>
=>	Tests::TestResultsList seqResults;
=>	INTERFACE_TESTS-> Test(&seqResults);

   Test is probably defined to take a "Tests::TestResultsList*&", or a
reference to a pointer. The first one defines storage for a pointer
variable, so making a reference to it is no problem. The second is a
temporary pointer value which doesn't have a memory location, so can't
have a reference to it without creating a temporary variable for it,
which is not done automatically unless it is a reference to a const.
   The basic issue is that Test() wants to write to the pointer, but
that doesn't make sense in the second case.

					Gary Duzan
					GTE Laboratories