Pure CORBA

C++ Memory Management

Object references in C++ are dynamically allocated and, consequently, care has to be taken to avoid leaking the associated memory. As with other heap-allocated CORBA data (see Chapter 4, “Memory Management”), object references can be by either dumb or smart pointers. The C++ language mapping specifies that two C++ classes are generated for each IDL interface, as given in Table 5.1:

Table 5.1. C++ Mapping of Interfaces

C++ Mapped Type	Description
IntfName_ptr	A dumb pointer representation of the object reference for IntfName. This pointer has the semantics of IntfName *. However, for standards compliance and portability you must always use IntfName_ptr as the type of the dumb pointer.
IntfName_var	A smart pointer representation ...