[omniORB] Identifier `ValueType' clashes with keyword `valuetype'

[Duncan Grisby]

On Friday 23 February, "Michael J. Davis Jr." wrote:

> However, the spec ALSO says that you can prepend an _ to a name that you 
> need/want to use that happens to clash with a keyword.  According to the 
> spec, you could use _ValueType as the name, and when the CORBA 2.3 compliant 
> idl compiler sees that, it generates code for 'ValueType' (without the 
> leading _).

omniidl supports that. If you need to keep your IDL compatible with an
ORB which doesn't understand the _ escapes, put something at the
beginning of the offending IDL file like

  #ifdef __OMNIIDL__
  #define ValueType _ValueType
  #endif

omniidl automatically sets the __OMNIIDL__ define, so you don't need
to do anything else.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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