Here is a valid report from Malcolm. 

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TAO VERSION: 1.4.1
ACE VERSION: 5.4.1

HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
Pentium 4, Debian linux

TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, if different from HOST:
COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL): g++ (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian
1:3.3.4-13)

AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED:
AMH

DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
COMPILATION? no
LINKING? no
EXECUTION? yes
OTHER (please specify)?

SYNOPSIS:
When calling an AMH servant from a proxy within the same process, the
proper servant method is called, but the data passed into the
parameters is bad.

DESCRIPTION:
It appears that the TAO option to perform direct function calls for
colocated objects isn't compatible with AMH servants. The same call
works ok with -ORBCollocation no. We'd still like to be able to use this
feature with non-AMH servants. Can we mix these 2 safely? Are we
going to have the same problem with AMI?

REPEAT BY:
Make any call on an AMH object from within the same process.

SAMPLE FIX/WORKAROUND:
Run with -ORBCollocation no .

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