CPP12 — LocalObject

From orbos/99-07-01 (is there a more up-to-date version with the C++
mapping?)

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namespace CORBA
{
class LocalObject
: public virtual Object

;
};

Member functions and any data members needed to implement the Object
pseudo-operations and any other ORB support functions must also be
supplied but are not shown.

_add_ref

The _add_ref member function is called when the reference is duplicated.
A default implementation is provided that does nothing. A derived
implementation may use this operation to maintain a reference count.

_remove_ref

The _remove_ref member function is called when the reference is
released. A default implementation is provided that does nothing. A
derived implementation may use this operation to maintain a reference
count, and delete the object when the count becomes zero.

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This implies that by default a LocalObject will not be reference
counted. That seems counter-intuitive. What was the intention here? It
seems that every application I can think of will want reference counted
local objects – however, to get this at present the application developer
either has to implement the reference counting themselves or inherit
off some proprietary interface.

same as issue #4160