Idlj bug: compiler generates stubs files 1000 of times...

Question

The idlj compiler generates client stubs multiple times while compiling a single idl file. For example the following idl file results in the idlj compiler generating the client stubs 5 times:
module com { module adobe { module ids {
     module preferences {
          interface BookPrefs;
module com { module adobe { module ids {
          module book {
          interface Book {
               short add(in short x, in short y);
module com { module adobe { module ids {
     module preferences {
          interface BookPrefs {
               short delete(in short x, in short y);
}; }; };It simply redundantly generates the stubs, overwriting each time. This is not generally a problem for a file of this size, but we have a large idl file that takes several hours to generate stubs for. If I look at CPU usage it is about at 10%, but if I look at disk I/O it is pegged at 100%. Through some simple debugging I discovered that idlj is writing stubs for each interface many thousands of times.
I've downloaded the source to idlj and have identified the problem and have a fix. the large idl file that used to take several hours, now takes less than 30 seconds.
I'd like to get this bug reported and fixed. How do I go about that?

Answer 1

I was going through some very old emails, and I found your post, which I
missed last year (8 months ago!). If you are still interested, send
me the details, and we will take care of this. Send email to
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