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Re: Alpha bug??

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  • Subject: Re: Alpha bug??
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 94 09:32:27 -0600
>From: "Larry A. Schoof" <address@hidden> Fri, 12 Aug 94 16:57:01 MDT
>Keywords: 199408122255.AA24545
>Subject: Alpha bug??

In the above message you wrote:

>I'm trying to port a library of C and Fortran routines I've built on
>top of netcdf to a DEC Alpha running OSF1.  The netcdf installation
>went through without a glitch and I ported my C library fairly easily
>(once I realized that sizeof(int) != sizeof(long)).  My library has
>passed all my tests when I link it to the default netcdf library.  But
>when I link it to a netcdf library that was compiled with
>CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG, I get the following assertion failure:

>Assertion failed: (*vpp)->begin == xdr_getpos(xdrs), file file.c, line 640

>What causes this error to occur?  Should I worry about it if my library
>works fine with the default netcdf library?  I'm not sure if this is a
>bug on the Alpha or not.  I don't have this problem on other
>platforms.

According to our records, that assertion was removed from our in-house,
development version:

    revision 1.66
    date: 1993/10/12 17:37:52;  author: davis;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -9
    the assert isn't always valid ..., remove

I suggest removing it from yours.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>