960701: make test problem: absurd arg to emalloc

Christi,

>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:13:55 -0600 (MDT) 
>From: Christi Forsythe <address@hidden>
>Organization: Sandia National Laboritory
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: 960701: the user that wouldn't go away 
>Keywords: 199607012112.AA03147 

In the above message you wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> well, I thought everything was working okay.  After I had a successful
> install of netCDF 2.4.2 I realized that I hadn't made the necessary
> changes in the netcdf.h file that we normally need.  I usually
> edit src/libsr/netcdf.h and change the following variables
> #define MAX_NC_DIMS 8192
> #define MAX_NC_VARS 8192
> 
> I made the above changes and then built netCDF again.  When I executed
> % make test > maketest.log
> the following occurred
> *** Testing nccreate ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncopen ...          ok ***
> *** Testing ncredef ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncendef ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncclose ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncinquire ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncsync ...          ok ***
> *** Testing ncabort ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimdef ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimid ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncdiminq ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimrename ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncvardef ...        *** absurd arg to emalloc: 32768
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Interesting problem.  Apparently, this is due to a "fix" that shouldn't
have made it out our door.  :-(

I suggest the following:

    1.  Undo the edits you made to try and get the package to work (but
        keep the new maximum values in libsrc/netcdf.h).

    2.  Go to the nctest/ subdirectory.

    3.  Edit the file emalloc.c: remove the test for `size' being
        greater than 32767 in both functions.

    4.  Go to the top-level source directory.

    5.  Execute `make all'.

    6.  Execute `make test'.

Please let me know if this helps.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>