ChangeLogTag: Wed Apr 19 14:18:12 UTC 2006 Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen@remedy.nl>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/TAO/tao/Exception.h b/TAO/tao/Exception.h
index 99d0102e4fc..08c631d3521 100644
--- a/TAO/tao/Exception.h
+++ b/TAO/tao/Exception.h
@@ -97,13 +97,24 @@ namespace CORBA
    * (in the @c TypeCode) that are generated by any OMG-IDL compiler
    * and available through the Interface Repository.  Think of it as a
    * "globally scoped" name distinguishing each exception.
-   */
+    *
+    * @todo According to the OMG CORBA C++ Mapping version 1.1,
+    *       the copy constructors
+    *       should be moved to "protected" section in class
+    *       declarations.  Since the current MS Visual C++ 7.1 compiler
+    *       will cause some problems to TAO's exception mechanism, we
+    *       defer doing this until we drop support for MSVC++ 7.1. Maybe
+    *       there is another solution, have to test that later.
+    */
   class TAO_Export Exception
   {
   public:
     /// Destructor.
     virtual ~Exception (void);
 
+    /// Copy constructor.
+    Exception (const Exception &src);
+
     // = To throw the exception (when using the standard mapping).
     virtual void _raise (void) const = 0;
 
@@ -181,9 +192,6 @@ namespace CORBA
     /// Default constructor.
     Exception (void);
 
-    /// Copy constructor.
-    Exception (const Exception &src);
-
     /// Assignment operator.
     Exception & operator = (const Exception & src);