RE: My fix to CA on alphas

[johill@lanl.gov (Jeff Hill)]

On Thursday, February 11, 1999 1:36 PM, Geoff Savage [SMTP:savage@fnal.gov] wrote:
> 
> I moved to the libCom directory and built libCom.a.  Then I went to the ca
> directory and made one minor change.
> 
> <d0ola> diff access.c access.c.orig
> 1915c1915
> < *(dbr_long_t *)pdest = htonl (*(dbr_long_t *)pvalue);
> ---
> > *(long *)pdest = htonl (*(dbr_long_t *)pvalue);
> <d0ola>
> 
> I'm uncertain as to the reason behind not using the dbr_xxxx_t typedefs
> here.
> 
> Then I built libca.c.  I linked in the new libraries and my program executed
> with no unaligned access errors.
> 

please do not make the above change (see explanation in previous message)

Jeff