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diff --git a/TAO/tests/DynAny_Test/README b/TAO/tests/DynAny_Test/README deleted file mode 100644 index 8e79dce6347..00000000000 --- a/TAO/tests/DynAny_Test/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ - - *********** DynAny_Test **************** - - updated 9/29/98. - -All the .h .cpp and .idl files (except da_tests.idl and driver.cpp) have -been moved into TAO. A test suite will be written shortly. - -The file da_tests.idl contains some data structures that have been used -for debugging. The file driver.cpp has been -used for this debugging, and the contents of these two files are in -flux. - -****************Some things to note about DynUnion: - -The spec is vague on the action of set_as_default -and member_name and there seems to be disparity in the interpretation of -the spec by other vendors. In this implementation, they are interpreted -as follows: - -set_as_default - - Treated as read-only, the assignment version is included to - override the virtual function, but has an empty body. The - fetch version returns TRUE if the DynUnion has a default - value and that default value is the active member. - -member_name - Fetch version just returns the name of the active member. The - assignment version makes active the member with the supplied - name (if it is valid), but does not save the previous value, - so to be meaningful, an insert or assignment should be done - after this operation, since the new active member will be - uninitialized. - -If a non-valid label is supplied for initialization or assignment -(in the typecode of an Any supplied to the constructor or to -from_any, for example), and there is a default index, the member -index will be set to the default value and the label will be stored -in the member DynAny holding the descriminator. If there is -not a default index, an exception will be thrown. - -For the DynUnion functions next(), seek() and rewind(), a new -uninitialized member will be created and the original will be lost. -I can't see what use these functions have when used with DynUnion, -but a behavior has been defined. If some behavior as yet unforeseen -turns out to be useful, these functions can always be changed. - -The spec calls for the seek() function to take an argument of -type Long, which is only one of ten types that a DynUnion label -can have, so the argument to seek() must refer to an index and -not to a label. |