[omniORB] Corba union waste of space?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 4 December, Michael Teske wrote:

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> This seems like a bug (waste of space) to me or is there any reason
> that the string members do not go into the union? Our real-life used
> union has even more types... As I mentioned in an earlier post, we're
> porting our system from orbacus, which uses pointers here so they fit
> into the C++ union data type (I suppose the complex types are not
> allowed in a C++union?).

The String_members cannot go in the union, because you can't put such
things in a C++ union. It certainly would be possible to store pointers
to String_members (and other complex types) instead, and they could go
in the union. I'd welcome a patch that did that.

The place to start attacking it is to look in
src/lib/omniORB/omniidl_be/cxx/header/template.py which defines the
templates that go in the C++ headers. From there, search the code for
the places that use the templates. I'm afraid that some of the C++
back-end code is rather ugly...

Cheers,

Duncan.

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