CORBA23 — another problem with IDL specification section 3.9.2

Summary: The spec doesn"t say how octal and hex integral constants are treated.
For instance, is the following line legal IDL or not:

const short s = 0xFFFF; // Valid???

If the interpretation of "0xFFFF" in this context is "65535", then
this is illegal, since the value is out of range. If the interpretation
is "-32768", then this assignment is valid. The wording in this section specifies that
each operand is converted immediately to the size of the eventual
storage location, but fails to specify how that conversion is to be
performed for hexadecimal and octal literals.

closed issue