[omniORB] CORBA::Double corrupted when compiling -O2 and -O3

[Stuart Caunt]

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for the reply and the solution. This version of Debian is still
"Testing", hopefully omniOrb will be upgraded before the stable release.

Cheers,
Stuart


> On Thursday 15 February, "Stuart Caunt" wrote:
>
>> I've recently upgraded my linux system and have noticed that values
>> passed
>> as CORBA::Double in our CORBA application are not passed correctly - the
>> values end up being very close to zero, eg 1.213342e-41 for all values
>> (even if they were originally 1.2, 3.4, 10.0, etc).
>
> [...]
>> I'm running on Debian Etch with OmniORB 4.0.6 and g++ 4.1.2. Has anyone
>> else had similar problems?
>
> It is a known problem caused by an interaction between omniORB's
> marshalling code and the gcc version used in Debian. The issue was fixed
> long ago. Upgrade to omniORB 4.1.0 or 4.0.7 and it will work fine.
>
> I wonder why Debian is still distributing an old omniORB version that is
> known to be broken on that OS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duncan.
>
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