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Tim Mooney <[email protected]> · Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:26:00 -0500 (CDT)

Awesome!  I haven't reproduced the symptom on my x86_64 system, but
anyway it's clear that the code needs this fix.  I'll look for other
similar problems.
Thanks to you both.
Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>
> To: "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:43:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Scalcout data corruption on darwin-x86 with x86_64 arch class
> On 8/18/11 2:13 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi, Andrew.
> 
> Bingo! I think you're absolutely right. After applying the
> attached patch to [calc 2-8]/calcApp/src/sCalcPerform.c, it now
> works. Thanks for the hint!
> 
> Tim: Maybe other local variables in the sCalcPerform function
> should be initialized too? I don't know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lewis

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