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In order to support interpretive marshaling we added a <size> argument to the Typecode contructor. The argument is not used anymore, but removing it will require changing the IDL compiler, re-visiting the generated code in the TAO library, etc. etc.
Both are reminders, I cannot work on them right now, so they are back into the tao-support pool, until somebody else picks them up.
The new TypeCode implementation TAO 1.4.5 makes this bug report moot.