Name: rlT66838 Date: 10/05/99


idltojava allows you to marshal a structure that contains nulls,
and this causes the (Java) recipient to blow up on receipt (under
HotSpot it actually causes the VM to crash with a memory violation).

May I suggest that you add a flag to idltojava, say -check, to be
used with debug-mode code, that checks that structures it is
marshalling are valid for earlier warning.

May I also suggest that you make the unmarshalling code more robust,
since inbound rubbish on a network connection should never blow
up the ORB.

(Review ID: 96143)
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