Tornado 2.2, cross-compiling woes

[Andy Foster <ajf@observatorysciences.co.uk>]

Hi All,

I've just been experimenting with cross-compiling
EPICS 3.14.4 against Tornado 2.0.2 (vxWorks 5.4.2)
and Tornado 2.2 (vxWorks 5.5) and I wanted to share
the following result.

(Note: This is cross-compiling with the Wind River supplied
cross-compiler from Solaris->PPC, so this is separate from the
Linux->PPC posting I made a few days back).

I have the following simple database, containing a single calcout record
on a 1Hz scan:

********************************************
#! Generated by VisualDCT v2.4
#! DBDSTART
#! DBD("../dbd/simple.dbd")
#! DBDEND


record(calcout, "$(user):trigger") {
  field(SCAN, "1 second")
  field(CALC, "(A=2)?1:0")
  field(OOPT, "Transition To Zero")
}


#! Further lines contain data used by VisualDCT
#! View(3131,2961,1.3)
#! Record("$(user):trigger",2680,2440,0,0,"$(user):trigger")
***********************************************


This DOES NOT work for me when compiled with T2.2
i.e. the VAL field of "$(user):trigger" stays equal to 1
no matter what value I set A equal to.

But it does work fine when compiled against T2.0.2
i.e. with the gcc-2.7.2 based compiler.


For the case which does not work (Tornado 2.2), I have:
../ccppc -v

Reading specs from /usr/software/dev/packages/vxworks/tornado2.2/ppc/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-wrs-vxworks/gcc-2.96/specs
gcc version gcc-2.96 (2.96+) 19990621 AltiVec VxWorks 5.5
65115 79101 83322 83686 84218 85823 85973 86999 87279 87638 \
88306 88708 88966 90104 90120 90296 90648 90662

(I have just patched this compiler as per Wind River's patch:
patch-tor2_2.ppc.031031 - in the hope that this would fix the problem.
I think those are SPR numbers which appear in the line above).

Any comments and I wondered how many sites are actively using
Tornado 2.2 either with a 3.13 or a 3.14 based release and if
you have noticed any subtle problems? All a bit worrying...

Cheers,

Andy

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