C11 — How to allocate storage for a basic type you wish to place in an any?

Summary: Under the C mapping how do you allocate storage for a basic type
you wish to place in an any.

Consider inserting a long into an Any.

Do you do this: solution 1

any->_type = TC_long;
any->_value = CORBA_alloc(sizeof(CORBA_long));

or this: solution 2

any->_type = TC_long;
any->value = CORBA_long_alloc();

One vendor argues that the text below supports solution 2. However
as a long is not a constructed type solution 1 seems more natural.

>From "17.8 Mapping Considerations for Constructed Types" of CORBA 2.1
specification:

"For types whose parameter passing modes require heap allocation,
an ORB implementation will provide allocation functions. These types
include variable-length struct, variable-length union, sequence, any,
string, wstring and array of a variable-length type. The return value
of these allocation functions must be freed using CORBA_free(). For
one of these listed types T, the ORB implementation will provide
the following type-specific allocation function:

T *T__alloc(); /* C */"

urgent resolution, issue resolved