[netCDF #OUH-534551]: Test ftst_vars4 failing on Solaris 10, GCC 4.2

Hi Geoff,

> Re-opening an admittedly old ticket - this diff shown below doesn't
> appear to have made it into NetCDF 4.1.3. I get a core dump on a sparcv9
> build using GCC 4.6. Applying that diff by hand on my test box gives me
> a STOP instead of a core dump, so it still doesn't fix the problem.
> 
> It's strangely enough not a problem on Solaris 10 using the amd64 ISA -
> the test passes fine on that platform.

Unfortunately, we no longer have a Sparc v9 platform on which to test or debug
this problem, so I have to rely on users to test it.  Also, the developer who
wrote this test code for the F77 API has taken another position, so rewriting
the test is a problem.

When it's convenient, could you try the following patch instead and let us know
if it still executes a STOP?  This works fine on our Linux x86_64 platforms:

--- /tmp/netcdf-4.1.1/nf_test/ftst_vars4.F      2009-10-24 12:03:39.000000000 
+0200
+++ netcdf-4.1.1/nf_test/ftst_vars4.F   2010-09-20 14:19:55.216296221 +0200
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         integer data1(vlen_len), data1_in(vlen_len)

C     These must be big enough to hold the stuct nc_vlen in netcdf.h.
-      integer vlen(10), vlen_in(10)
+     integer*8 vlen(10), vlen_in(10)

 C     Loop indexes, and error handling.
        integer x, retval, index(1)

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OUH-534551
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Critical
Status: Closed