Issue 582:  Possible namespace collision in OTS idl (transactions)
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Summary: Summary: This possible collision  occurs in the TransIdentity struct. The same problem occurs in the Synchronization interface. ORBs complain that status is redefined

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June 9, 1997: received issue
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From: Mark Little <M.C.Little@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Possible namespace collision in OTS idl
To: transactions-wg@omg.org
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:19:07 +0100 (BST)

I think   that  there may be a   possible  namespace collision  in the
current OTS idl. It occurs in the TransIdentity struct:

struct TransIdentity
{
	Coordinator coordinator;
	Terminator terminator;
	otid_t otid;
};

Most Orbs we  have access to  let this pass through,  but a couple say
that  there is a redefinition  of Coordinator and Terminator since the
variable names are  the same but differ   only in case. The  CORBA 2.0
spec. does say that identifiers which  differ only in case collide and
are errors.

This  occurs again in  the Synchronization interface, where the method
after_completion is:

void after_completion (in Status status);

and the Orbs complain that status is redefined.

Any help in resolving this one way or another would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mark.

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