File Pro And Bus Errors

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 04:00P Fri Jul 08 2005, J. Ryan Kelley wrote:
> 
> 
> Jim Asman wrote:
> >
> >The reason I brought this up is that I have seen something similar
> >on fp for freeBSD. In my case, code that had worked for years on SCO,
> >had problems on freeBSD filepro. I was only testing this for someone, so
> >I never pursued it.
> >
> >I found that deleting a few lines from the input table made the error 
> >go away. It wasn't like there was specific code that made it blow up,
> >but getting rid of 60 lines or so of @key stuff suppressed the error.
> >
> >Maybe there is something in common here.
> >  
> >
> Jim,
> 
> It seems like it, in my first post on this thread, I mentioned something 
> about removing lines of comments sometimes fixing the problem.  This 
> just seems really illogical that removing lines of code or comments 
> would fix these bus errors unless there is a major flaw somewhere in 
> either cabe or dclerk for Solaris, or in your case FreeBSD.  FPTech has 
> however assured me that there is no such issues with any filepro 
> software for Solaris.  *shrug*  I'm just not really sure what to think 
> of it, I have gotten some interesting points of view from you and others 
> on the list, hopefully I'll figure something out some day.

We eventually tried this on a much earlier version of freeBSD, and it ran
without issue. This was using the same fp binaries.

It blew up on bsd 4.10 and 5.01 and worked on 4.07 or 4.08. Those version
numbers may not be exact, but you get the idea. I concluded that there
must be something different in the libraries of the later versions,
but I'll leave that speculation to people who know this stuff far better
than me.


Jim 
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