Issue 6245: No portable way to create a OUT argument for a DII request (cxx_revision)
Source: Memorial University of Newfoundland (Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D., jeffreyp(at)mun.ca)
Nature: Clarification
Severity: Significant
Summary: Since the Any constructor from type code, void* value and boolean release flag has been eliminated, there is no longer any portable way to create an OUT argument for a DII request, without also assigning a value to it. 

I propose either a constructor from type code or changing the behavior of the type code set method to always succeed if the Any's TCKind is tk_null.

Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
September 5, 2003: received issue
Discussion: 
deferred in June 2011 to the next RTF
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Date: 05 Sep 2003 10:28:58 -0400 
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Name: Jeffrey Parsons 
Company: ISIS - Vanderbilt University 
mailFrom: j.parsons@vanderbilt.edu 
Notification: Yes 
Specification: C++ Mapping 
Section: 1.16 
FormalNumber: formal/03-06-03 
Version: 1.42.5 
RevisionDate: 03-06-03 
Page: 1-156, 157 
Nature: Clarification 
Severity: Significant 
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 
Description
Since the Any constructor from type code, void* value and boolean release flag has been eliminated, there is no longer any portable way to create an OUT argument for a DII request, without also assigning a value to it. 

I propose either a constructor from type code or changing the behavior of the type code set method to always succeed if the Any's TCKind is tk_null.