C++11 mapping for IDL primitive types
The proposal is to map the IDL primitive types directly to their C++11 representation. No special CORBA typedefs as currently, but just C++11 types which can be used directly in all application code.
| char | char |
| wchar | wchar_t |
| octet | uint8_t |
| short | int16_t |
| unsigned short | uint16_t |
| long | int32_t |
| unsigned long | uint32_t |
| long long | int64_t |
| unsigned long long | uint64_t |
| float | float |
| double | double |
| long double | long double |
| boolean | bool |
| fixed | ? |
| string | std::string |
| wstring | std::wstring |
Will anything change?
I haven't seen anything in the C++0x spec that changes anything about primitive types. If that's indeed the case, won't we still be faced with using
to_char,from_booleanetc.?Won't work for floating point
I do not think the requirements for the CORBA/IDL floating point types and those of the C++ types match, or do they?
For those types there the IDL specs match the C++ std specs exactly, this is certainly a good idea.