[PolyORB-users] Type generated for array dimension

[Kellogg, Oliver]

Hello polyorb-users,

I just found an interesting incompatibility between iac and
CORBA/IDL2Ada.pm regarding the data type generated for an array typedef
dimension involving an IDL const. Example:

module tst {

   const short dim = 3;

   typedef boolean arr_t[dim];

};

For arr_t, iac generates:

   type arr_t is array (0 .. 2) of CORBA.Boolean;

while CORBA/IDL2Ada.pm generates:

   type arr_t is array (0 .. dim - 1) of CORBA.Boolean;

This may impact applications. For example, in our Ada code we used:

declare
   subtype Dim_T is CORBA.Short range 0 .. tst.dim - 1;
   Arr : tst.arr_t;
begin
   for I in Dim_T loop
     Arr (I) := True;
   end loop;
end;

This gave a syntax error when used with iac generated code because of an
index type mismatch (expecting Integer not CORBA.Short)

I am changing CORBA/IDL2Ada.pm to follow the iac code generation.

-- Oliver