[ace-users] Regd. TAO IDL compiler

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

Currently TAO_IDL and CORBA don't have support yet for bitmask which is
a new IDL4 feature.

Best regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
http://www.remedy.nl

On 2020-06-06 04:24, Douglas C. Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Sanaka,
>
>> I downloaded ACE/TAO from
>> http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
>> I believe it to be the latest version..
>> the tao_idl -V gives the below..
>> TAO_IDL_FE, version 2.5.9 (Based on Sun IDL FE, version 1.3.0)
>> TAO_IDL_BE, version 2.5.9
>>
>> I tried to use bitset construct -
>>
>> struct StructA {
>>   long a;
>>   bitmask BitMask1 {
>>   val0, val1, val2, val3 };
>> };
>> I get the error
>> "Illegal syntax following member declarator(s)"
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or bitset is not supported in this compiler?
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>         Doug
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