[omniORB] Corba union waste of space?

[Michael Teske]

Bailey, Kendall wrote:
>> 2. (ugly trick): In order for placement new to work 100% correct, I need to call
>> destructors explicitely. Unfortunately I only have the type name
>> :CORBA::String_member and need to call ~_CORBA_String_member(), because it's a
>> typedef. My ugly hack is to replace ::CORBA:: with _CORBA_, but I really do not
>> like it, as it will probably break with other types.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> 
> If I understand the issue, it seems a simple template function would do the trick.  Something like this?
> 
> template<typename T>
> destroy_union_member( T* p )
> {
>         p->~T();
> }

Of course, thank you very much!

Greetings,
  Michael