Thanks to Freddie we have a patch now for the issue for 64 bit systems.
I have to revise that the problem also occurs at 32 bit systems. I apologize for the inconvenience.
dbConvert.c works at 32 bit system fine! The issue occurs at 64 bit systems only.

Hi,

 

I think  get_precision()  expects a  long*  for the precision but the variable passed is declared   int   in getFloatString() and getDoubleString(). In theory this could cause a crash on 64 bit linux as int and long are different sizes, but It wouldn’t explain the 32bit crash though as int and long are the same size on that architecture…

 

Regards,

 

Freddie

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Lange
Sent: 21 February 2017 08:54
To: Carsten Winkler
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault at dbConvert.c in Ubuntu 32/64 bit

 

Hi Carsten,

 

The default value for precision used when you comment out the lines you mention is 6.

Can you achieve the same (i.e. avoid segfaults) by setting PREC to 6 in your database?

If yes: which PREC values cause segfaults?

 

Cheers,
~Ralph

 

 

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Carsten Winkler <[email protected]> wrote:

I forgot to give you the used db entry. Here it is:

record(waveform, "caLab:waveString")
{
    field(DESC, "String waveform record")
    field(NELM, 48)
    field(FTVL, "STRING")
    field (PINI, "YES")
    field (PREC, 3)

}


Am 20.02.2017 um 15:40 schrieb Carsten Winkler:
> Hi there,
>
> I always run into a  "Segmentation fault" in function "putFloatString" |
> "putDoubleString" of BASE/src/db/dbConvert.c
>
> When I comment out following lines (call of get_precision) everything is
> working again:
> 3947
> 3948
> 4157
> 4158
>
> Test system
> =================================================
> Ubunu 16.04 (64 bit)
> EPICS BASE 3.14.12.6 (64 bit)
>
>
> To check the error, I used this code:
> test.cpp
> =================================================
>
> #include <malloc.h>
> #include <cadef.h>
> //#define DOUBLE
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main() {
>     chid chanID;
>     int iNumber = 1;
>     int timeout = 0;
>     void *pValue = 0x0;
>
>     ca_context_create(ca_enable_preemptive_callback);
> #if defined DOUBLE
>     pValue = (double*)malloc(iNumber*sizeof(double));
>     for(int i=0; i<iNumber; i++) {
>         ((double*)pValue)[i] = (double)((1+i)*3.1415926535897);
>     }
> #else
>     pValue = (float*)malloc(iNumber*sizeof(float));
>     for(int i=0; i<iNumber; i++) {
>         ((float*)pValue)[i] = (float)((1+i)*3.1415926535897);
>     }
> #endif
>     ca_create_channel("caLab:waveString", 0, 0, 50, &chanID);
>     timeout = 3000;
>     while(ca_state(chanID) != cs_conn && timeout--) {
>         epicsThreadSleep(.001);
>     }
> #if defined DOUBLE
>     ca_array_put(DBR_DOUBLE, 1, chanID, pValue);
> #else
>     ca_array_put(DBR_FLOAT, 1, chanID, pValue);
> #endif
>     ca_context_destroy();
>     free(pValue);
>     return 0;
> }
>
> g++ -I/usr/local/epics/base-3.14.12.6/include/os/Linux
> -I/usr/local/epics/base-3.14.12.6/include -O0 -g3 -Wall -c
> -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MF"test.d" -MT"test.d" -o "test.o" "test.cpp"
> g++ -L/usr/local/epics/base-3.14.12.6/lib/linux-x86_64 -o "test"
> test.o   -lCom -lca
>
> Any advice to solve this issue?
>
> Best regards
> Carsten Winkler
>
> PS Same problem in 32 bit systems
>
>
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