[omniORB] generated types copy constructor problem

[Duncan Grisby]

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 15:44 +0200, Johnny Willemsen wrote:

> I don't know the details of the omniORB implementation, but the formal
> IDL to C++ language mapping says the following:
> 
> The default union constructor performs no application-visible
> initialization of the union. It does not initialize the discriminator,
> nor does it initialize any union members to a state useful to an
> application. (The implementation of the default constructor can do
> whatever type of initialization it wants to, but such initialization is
> implementation-dependent. No compliant application can count on a union
> ever being properly initialized by the default constructor alone.)

Exactly, and that's why omniORB doesn't default-construct unions or
allow non-initialised ones to be copied. I'm afraid that application
code that attempts to copy a non-initialised union is invalid.

Duncan.

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