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Subject: Re: Calculation in SNL/SEQ
From: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
To: liuping <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:16:21 +0200
Hello Liuping,

The warning "implicit declaration of function XXX" means that the compiler assumes the type of the function is "int XXX(...)".

So what happens? You call the function, it returns a double but the compiler doesn't know. It assumes an int and converts it to double (the type of temp). Depending on the architecture, the misinterpretation may be an int that is the result of a bitwise mapping of either the low or the high half of the double result bits or even something completely unrelated. So the "correct" result of fabs was probably pure coincidence.

By the way, this is not only true for SNL but for all C code.

Dirk

liuping wrote:
Hello,

I need your help about the calculation in SNL/SEQ.

In my SNL/SEQ application, I need to execute the mathematical operation: fabs() and exp().

Here is the codes abstracted from the my application:

%%/////////////////////

double   temp;

  double  err;

  double  r1;

  double  r2;

ss test123{
         state calctest

{
           when(delay(2))

           {

                r1=1.0;

               r2=2.0;

                temp=fabs(r1-r2);

                printf("fabs:  %lf\n",temp);

                temp=exp(r1+r2);

printf("exp: %lf\n", temp);
           } state calctest

        }

   }

%%//////////////////////////

The operation result is:

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

……

Obviously, the result of “fabs” is right, and the other is wrong. Then I check the output of compiler. There are two warning and no error (see the bold and incline words).

.....

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/blctrl/watercool-Mono/motorApp/OmsSrc/O.vxWorks-ppc604_long'

converting ../sncExample.stt

/home/blctrl/seq-2.0.11/bin/linux-x86/snc ../sncExample.stt -o sncExample.c.tmp

mv sncExample.c.tmp sncExample.c

/BLC/epics/Tornado2.2/host/x86-linux/bin/ccppc -c -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DCPU=PPC604 -DvxWorks -include /BLC/epics/Tornado2.2/target/h/vxWorks.h -ansi -O3 -Wall -mcpu=604 -mstrict-align -mlongcall -fno-builtin -I. -I.. -I../../../include/os/vxWorks -I../../../include -I/home/blctrl/asyn4-8/include/os/vxWorks -I/home/blctrl/asyn4-8/include -I/home/blctrl/seq-2.0.11/include/os/vxWorks -I/home/blctrl/seq-2.0.11/include -I/BLC/epics/base/include/os/vxWorks -I/BLC/epics/base/include -I/BLC/epics/Tornado2.2/target/h sncExample.c

*/../sncExample.stt: In function `A_test123_calctest':/*

*/../sncExample.stt:38: warning: implicit declaration of function `fabs'/*

*/../sncExample.stt:40: warning: implicit declaration of function `exp/**'*

perl /BLC/epics/base/bin/linux-x86/registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl ../O.Common/omsMAXv.dbd omsMAXv_registerRecordDeviceDriver > temp.cpp

mv temp.cpp omsMAXv_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp

.....

Again, I tried to do such process:

1)Power off the VME rack,

2)Change the value of r1 and r2:    r1=9.0;    r2=12.0;

3)make clean

4)make

5)Power on the VME rack

Sadly I saw the result was same to last test:

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

fabs:  1.000000

exp:  2287528.000000

……

The result of “fabs” and “exp” are both wrong. Who can tell me the reason and how to get the right result?

Any advices are appreciated!

===================================
LIU Ping

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Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Shanghai 201204
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