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diff --git a/TAO/tests/IDL_Inherited_Operation/README b/TAO/tests/IDL_Inherited_Operation/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2bde20e4f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/TAO/tests/IDL_Inherited_Operation/README @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +/** + +@page IDL Inherited Operation Test README File + + This test checks that an IDL compiler bug, fixed by + + Fri Mar 20 16:04:58 UTC 2009 Jeff Parsons <j.parsons@vanderbilt.edu> + + never gets re-introduced. The IDL declarations that caused the + original bug are: + + - A base interface, with an operation, is declared inside 2 + nested modules. + - The nested modules are closed. + - The nested modules are reopened, and forward declaration of + the base interface appears inside. + - The nested modules are closed. + - The outer module is reopened, and a derived interface + declaration appears inside, using the partially scoped + name of the base interface. + + This type of IDL caused the base interface operation to be missing + from the operation table in generated code for the derived + interface. Client calls to this operation on a derived object + would result in a BAD_OPERATION exception. + + The test is here instead of in the IDL_Test directory because + the bug can be detected only at runtime, by a remote call. + IDL_Test is designed to catch only: + + - Error messages incorrectly caused by legal IDL + - Errors from incompilable generated code + - Incorrect repository IDs, fetched by a local stub call + + To run the test use the run_test.pl script: + +$ ./run_test.pl + + the script returns 0 if the test was successful. + +*/ |