Re: porting woes...

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Remi Arnaud (remi++at++remi.asd.sgi.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 01:27:24 -0800

Sorry about that question:

 Why do you port to 5.3, you should be porting to 6.2 ??

 -- Remi

On Oct 30, 1:30am, jparsons++at++ist.ucf.edu wrote:
> Subject: porting woes...
> Performers:
>
> I am porting some 1.2 code to Performer 2.0 on an Onyx RE2
> running IRIX 5.3. The only significant changes I have made to
> what has been reliable code, is converting from Pipes to PWins. I
> now find that if I instance an Ascension driver class that opens a
> serial port for reading and writing *before* I make my first
> pfFrame() call, then I am unable to read data from the port.
> However, as long as I wait until after the first pfFrame (wherever
> in the code I happen to choose to put it) everything works just
> dandy.
>
> Is there a connection between pfFrame and proper access to a port,
> or is this just an ugly memory leak, as I suspect, that has reared
> its head now that the code segments have been shuffled?
>
> BTW, I am using system read and write calls to the port, and opening
> it from my own non-Performer (time-tested) serial class. This behavior
> occurs whatever the proc split happens to be.
>
> Ideas appreciated...
>
> Jim Parsons
> Visual Systems Lab
> Institute for Simulation & Training
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