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Subject: Re: Newport XPS-Q8 and Motor Record - armv5teb architecture
From: Stephen Beckwith <[email protected]>
To: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
Cc: Tonia Batten <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:04:54 -0400
You miss my point: 
Since the issue is between two different ISA's (x86, which is byte addressable memory vs. ARM v5 which is 4 byte (32 bit) addressable memory), you WILL have alignment issues in certain cases.  In addition, supporting libraries and other code may have issues with the "native types" - make sure the double is the same width (in bytes) on each architecture.
Another idea:  Dump (in hex) the message pointed to by the pmsg pointer.

you mention a Queue - if you're doing memory copies (??) then size becomes an issue.  The other possibility is,again, due to a size issue, there is a clash between this structure and another one next to it and the dvalue is getting overwritten.

Stephen Beckwith



On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Mark Rivers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could be padding issue in how the compilers for different ISA handle the alignment.

That should not be an issue because the structure is only being accessed by code using the same definition of the structure.  The structure is written to in one function and read from in another function in the same source code module.  Packing should be irrelevant.

> Does the ARM compiler being used has proper library support for double?

It certainly appears to.  The double values are being computed correctly in the motor record, and they are being printed correctly in this device support code.

Mark


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From: Stephen Beckwith [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 10:00 PM
To: J. Lewis Muir
Cc: Mark Rivers; Tonia Batten; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Newport XPS-Q8 and Motor Record - armv5teb architecture

Intel is Little Endian - ARM can be either - how is the ARMv5 setup?  Big Endian or Little Endian?
What OS are you dealing with?  What compiler?
What happens if you move the double and int?  Could be padding issue in how the compilers for different ISA handle the alignment.  Is the Intel a 64bit CPU? (I know ARMv5 is not, that’s a “StrongArm” variant basically or Marvell. . .
Does the ARM compiler being used has proper library support for double?
Stephen Beckwith



On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:39 PM, J. Lewis Muir <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 5/3/14, 5:32 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Any idea how this could happen?

Hi, Mark.

Compiler bug?  Maybe try turning off all optimizations?

Lewis



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