Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Peregrine McGehee <[email protected]> · Thu, 3 Aug 95 11:14:22 HST

[cc'ed to tech-talk]

Jeff, 
	I'm getting R3.12.1 to run on Sparc targets and need some insight
into how the buffers are managed in the server code.

	My Sparcs were generating memory alignment exceptions when 
getEnumDouble() attempted to write a double into the send buffer address.
I traced this back into cas_alloc_msg() (rsrv/caserverio.c) and found that
although the message sizes were aligned to 8 bytes, the base address of the
send buffer wasn't - so the buffer addresses weren't - hence the error.

	The simplest solution seemed to be to add the following line to
the start of cas_message_align() to force the alignment of the send buffer:
	pclient->send.stk += 
		CA_MESSAGE_ALIGN((long)EXTMSGPTR(pclient)) -
		(long)EXTMSGPTR(pclient);

	While this had the desired effect of forcing the message buffer
addresses to be 8-byte aligned it had the following side-effects:
	1) The stack index (pclient->send.stk) no longer changes, and
	2) The client (in this case caget) complaines about bad UDP
	messages.
	
	I suspect there is something in how END_MSG() works to actually
post the message that I've come into conflict with.

Peregrine
([email protected])

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System