[omniORB] Problems with OmniOrb 4.12 and Visual Studio 2005

[Martin Trappel]

jochen.heintz at t-online.de wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > i have downloaded the OmniOrb Package 
"omniORB-4.1.2-x86_win32-vs8.zip" from Sourceforge.
 >
 > I'm new to CORBA so i've made a new Project in my Visual studio to 
test it.
 >
 > (snipped)
 >
 > using namespace std;
 >
 > char* HelloServer::getWorkflow ()
 > {
 >   String_var hallo = (const char*) "Hallo";
 >   return string_dup(hallo);
 > }
 >

This code is unnecessarily complicated.
Simply use:
   return string_dup("Hallo");
or, if you want to make use of a _var type:
   hallo._retn();

There is also no need to cast string constants to (const char*) with 
recent C++ compilers.

 >
 > (snipped)
 >
 >
 > The Client calls the Server-Method getWorkflow() and then the Server 
crashes and gives the Message "Windows breakpoint..." as described above.
 >
 > This happends only in debug. If i run the exe in DOS-Box all works well.
 >

"all works well" means the _same_ server.exe will work if not run under 
the debugger?
The debug-msg you get tells you that a heap corruption occurred and VS 
was able to detect this with the additional code it adds for the debug 
version of the executable. I would have assumed you app should crash if 
not run under the debugger, if you get a assert/breakpoint in the debugger.


br,
Martin