[ace-users] Regd. TAO IDL compiler

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> I would assume bitset also is not supported yet, because I face a
> similar problem with it.

Also bitset is IDL4 and not supported by CORBA

> Any thoughts on if and when it will be supported?

When someone does the work or sponsor someone to add support for
bitset/bitmask to TAO_IDL and CORBA. Maybe through the work on OpenDDS
TAO_IDL gets support for bitset/bitmask at some point, but it still has
to be supported for CORBA after that. See
https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/commercial-support.html for an
overview of the commercial support companies who could assist with this.

Best regards,

Johnny
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:36 AM Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl
> <mailto:jwillemsen at remedy.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     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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