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DECnet Phase IV porting issue

dschwarz — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:07:11 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to port some very old stuff from VAX to I64.

The software is written in VAX Fortran and uses DECnet IV nontransparent task-to-task communiation.

The software compiles fine on I64 using HP Fortran V8.2 but during runtime I get

%SYSTEM-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value

This comes from a call to $QIO where the program tries to register itself as a DECnet object

(function code IO$_ACPCONTROL)

Attached you may find a reproducer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: DECnet Phase IV porting issue

Mike Kier — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:29:55 GMT

My very first thought would be alignment when switching architectures. Since you can't use a supplied library module (I don't know why that is omitted from FORSYSDEF - maybe there is an SDL equivalent that you could use the freeware SDL package to generate an include file for it), you should probably wrap your structure definitions with

!DEC$ OPTIONS/NOWARN/ALIGN=(RECORDS=PACKED,COMMONS=PACKED)

!DEC$ END OPTIONS

like the library modules do.

Since you are using your own PARAMETER definitions, I'd also verify them against the values on your target system, but I'd be very surprised if they have changed - but, trust AND verify :-).

If that fails to resolve it, I'd start with a /NOOPT/DEBUG version and examine everything, including addresses, just before and after the call.

I'd also look at promoting any of the non-record I*2 values just from a performance perspective and change the event flag to the ENF value - it doesn't look like you use it for anything.

Re: DECnet Phase IV porting issue

Volker Halle — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:01:13 GMT

Mike is absolutely right: you need to enclose the DECLNAME Structure definition like this:

!DEC$ OPTIONS/NOWARN/ALIGN=(RECORDS=PACKED,COMMONS=PACKED)
        STRUCTURE /DECLNAME/
            BYTE                FUNCTION
            UNION
                MAP
                    INTEGER*4   FILLER                  ! "name" case
                END MAP

                MAP
                    INTEGER*4   OBJ_NUM                 ! "name" case
                END MAP
            END UNION
        END STRUCTURE
!DEC$ END OPTIONS

Otherwise the NFB is not filled correctly, because the INTEGER*4 longword is put at the next LONGWORD boundary after the BYTE. This has nothing to do with Itanium, it also fails on Alpha.

Volker.

Re: DECnet Phase IV porting issue

dschwarz — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:02:37 GMT

Thank you very much.

Re: DECnet Phase IV porting issue

dschwarz — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:04:50 GMT

Mike, Volker,

I tried to give you 10 points, but I'm still fighting with this user interface.

Sorry

Re: DECnet Phase IV porting issue

Dennis Handly — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:28:09 GMT

>I tried to give you 10 points,

One Kudos ~= a bunny.