Issue 144:  Rethrowing exceptions (cxx_revision)
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Summary: Summary: If all I want to do is rethrow an exception in my C++ client code, there is no convenient and compliant way. It would be useful to add extra members to allow this.

Resolution:  Fixed by Portability submission
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Actions taken:
October 1, 1996: Received issue
January 2, 1998: closed issue
Discussion: 

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3.  If all I want to do is to rethrow the exception in my C++ client
code, there is no convenient way to do this that is compliant.  The
only choice now is to use a sequence of dynamic_cast<> (or _narrow)
calls and then throw a copy of the correct exception type.  It would
be very useful to add the following two members to CORBA::Exception:

	virtual Exception *	_duplicate();
	void			_raise();

The former would duplicate the exception with the correct dynamic
type. 
The latter would simply throw a copy of the dynamic type of the
exception.

Jon Biggar
jon@sems.com