Re: [gnet-dev] a few patches and some bugs

[mcmahill mtl mit edu]

I haven't tried 1.1.8 yet, will do soon.  If the alignment problems still
exist I'll see if I can figure out how to track it down with the debugger.

-Dan


On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, David Helder wrote:

> 
> Dan,
> 
> Did you try gnet-1.1.8?  That should fix the bugs in pack_test.c.
> 
> Using gsize is a good idea.  I'll take a look at updating iochannel
> appropriately.
> 
> Do you know where the alignment problems are occuring?  Could be in the
> inetaddr/socket code...
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 mcmahill mtl mit edu wrote:
> > Here are a few patches I needed to get gnetlibrary to compile on my alpha.
> > There are still a few bugs as the test.log file shows.  It seems like the
> > PACK2 macro isn't quite 64-bit clean although I haven't had a chance to
> > try and fully understand what its doing.
> >
> > Also, while the tests were running, I got a few unaligned access warnings.
> > This happens when you try and access, for example, a 32 bit value which is
> > not aligned on a 32 bit boundary.  If you had a char * and cast to an
> > int * and try and dereference it, this can happen.  In my case, the kernel
> > fixes it up, but it slows down the program and gives these annoying
> > messages.
> >
> > Hope this is useful information to someone.
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Helder - dhelder umich edu - <http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dhelder>
> 
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