That's strange. What version of dice are you using? With the above code it should not pagefault, but instead jump into the kernel-debugger.
thanks for your answers. Don't panic...:). When i say its page faulting its AFTER entering the kernel debugger.
Ok. You are using the default environment, which contains function pointers to malloc and free functions to allocate memory for such things as string returned from the server. These functions are (in old versions of dice set to NULL -> pagefault) or a default function (in the latest version), which jumps into the kernel debugger (to allow to see why its pagefaulting :). If you turn on warnings when using dice (-Wall or see --help for other options) it tells you when and for which variable it uses malloc. The idea is, that you can provide your own versions of malloc and free (just have to have the same signature) and set them in the local environment:
CORBA_Environment env = dice_default_environment; env.malloc = (dice_malloc)malloc;
The cast is to eliminate a warning: the libc malloc usually uses size_t type, which is not defined in L4Env.
i'm gonna try it right now.
Hope that helps, Ron.
thanks again :)
Tiago