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Re: Scalcout data corruption on darwin-x86 with x86_64 arch class |
From: |
Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> |
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[email protected] |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:13:46 -0500 |
Hi Lewis,
I think you and/or Tim Mooney might find these numbers interesting:
On 2011-08-18 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> ioc23:RealTime0.SVAL 140733193389032.000
in Hex, that's 0x7FFF000003E8, or 0x7FFF 0000 03E8
> ioc23:RealTime1.VAL 1000
1000 in Hex is 0x03E8
> ioc23:RealTime3.SVAL 30064772072.000
0x7000003E8, or 0x7 0000 03E8
> ioc23:RealTime8.SVAL 4294968296.000
0x1000003E8, or 0x1 0000 03E8
> I expect all of the VAL and SVAL fields to have the value 1000,
> but obviously they don't. Some of them are completely wrong.
Maybe not quite as completely wrong as you first thought.
> Any ideas? Can anyone reproduce this problem for darwin-x86
> with the x86_64 architecture class? What about linux-x86_64?
I'm guessing the scalcout record type (which is from synApps, not part of
Base) is probably using long for integer value storage in some places without
properly initializing the memory. An LP64 architecture is liable to this kind
of problem (which is why Base maps DBF_LONG to epicsInt32), so I'd expect
linux-x86_64 to exhibit it as well although I haven't tried as I don't have
synApps installed.
- Andrew
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