CORBA24 — TypeCode issue

At present, the following IDL code is illegal:

interface I

;

To make it legal, "orb.idl" must be included. From the spec:

"The file orb.idl contains the IDL definitions for the CORBA module. The
file orb.idl must be included in IDL files that use names defined in the
CORBA module."

I don't think that this is a good idea, because of the following
reasons:

• TypeCode is PIDL, not IDL. So orb.idl can only be used as a "switch"
  to enable TypeCode, but it cannot contain a "real" IDL definition for
  TypeCode.

• Having to include orb.idl for every little program that requires
  TypeCode means a huge overhead, as orb.idl includes everything from
  the CORBA module (including the IFR!).

I don't see any reason why TypeCode should only be available if orb.idl
is included. To me, TypeCode is "built-in", even if it doesn't have a
keyword. So it appears rather strange to me that I have to artificially
disable TypeCode in our IDL parser if orb.idl is not included, just to
be compliant with the spec.

I would therefore propose to allow CORBA::TypeCode in IDL even if
orb.idl is not included.

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