Re: 970725: Bug dedected

>To: address@hidden
>From: Adrianos Lahanas <address@hidden>
>Subject: Bug dedected
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199707251438.IAA29699

Hi Adrianos,

> I am running netCDF 3.3.1 software and for the moment seems to
> work. When I tried to read a large array ("rhum") the program
> stop unsuccessfuly executing .
> 
> Below is the program I used to test and the execution 
> stack of the program reported by the debugger.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> 
> #include "netcdf.h"
> 
> #define TIMES 2
> #define LON 144
> #define LAT 73
> #define LEVEL 7
> 
> 
> void handle_error(int status);
> 
> main(argc, argv)
> int argc;
> char *argv[];
> {
>   int status;
>   int rh_id, ncid;
>   short rhum_val[LEVEL*TIMES*LON*LAT];
>   int counter;
> 
>         if ( argc != 2 ) {
>                 printf("Usage: executable <filename>\n");
>                 return;
>         }
>         status = nc_open(argv[1],NC_NOWRITE,&ncid);
>         if (status != NC_NOERR) handle_error(status);
> 
>         status = nc_inq_varid (ncid,"rhum",&rh_id);
>         if (status != NC_NOERR) handle_error(status);
> 
>         status = nc_get_var_short(ncid, rh_id, rhum_val);
>         if (status != NC_NOERR) handle_error(status);
> 
>         for (counter = 0;counter < LEVEL;counter++) {
>                 printf(" %d ",rhum_val[counter]);
>                 if ((counter % 10) == 0) printf("\n");
>         }
> 
>         status = nc_close(ncid);
>         if (status != NC_NOERR) handle_error(status);
> }
> 
> void handle_error(int status)
> {
>         if (status != NC_NOERR) {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", nc_strerror(status));
>                 exit( -1 );
>         }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> And here is the dbx stack report:
> 
> moveeq._moveeq() at 0x1000316c
> ncx_getn_short_short() at 0x1000c330
> getNCvx_short_short() at 0x10012574
> nc_get_var_short() at 0x10018b6c
> main(0xa4d3a4d3, 0xa4d3a4d3) at 0x1000029c
> 
> 
> P.S
> 
> We run the program on AIX 4.2 w/station.

I'll need more information before I can call this a bug.  It worked fine
when I just compiled and ran it on our AIX 4.2 platform.  I generated a
sample data file from the following CDL file (that I named abug.cdl):

netcdf abug {
dimensions:
        times = 2;
        lon = 144;
        lat = 73;
        level = 7;
variables:
        short rhum(times, lon, lat, level);
data:
  rhum = 
   0,1,2,3,4,5,6;
}

using

  ncgen -b abug.cdl

which generated the netCDF file "abug.nc".  Running your program with
the argument "abug.nc" produced the output:

 0 
 1  2  3  4  5  6

as expected.

So I can't reproduce the bug.  And if you did "make test" and it
succeeded, it already tested many calls to nc_get_var_short().  Can you
try it using the test file as generated above with ncgen to see if it
gets an error?  And if not, can you supply a small example that fails?

Thanks.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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