[omniORB] "Segmentation Fault" Error while handling client's requests..

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 16 January, Slava Garelin wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 09:21, you wrote:
> >   CORBA::String_var src = "Hello!  i am gamma.....";
> 
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> CORBA::String_var src =CORBA::string_dup("Hello!  i am gamma.....");

That's an interesting point. With a modern C++ compiler, the two lines
of code are equivalent, since string literals are const char* in
standard C++. Older C++ compilers treat string literals as char*,
though, and directly initialising a String_var with them would cause a
problem.

However, in the original problem, it was the server that crashed, not
the client that used the String_var code. Also, any potential problem
would only occur when the String_var goes out of scope and it tries to
free the string. That never happens in the example.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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