Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:52:15 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: BCSIO trouble
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To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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> Hi all 
> what is wrong with this piece of code: 
>
> /* Initializing stuff like in bcsio20/test.c  */ 
>    while( EOF != (c=fgetc(f))){ 
>       sio_put(comPort,c); 
>       while( sio_senddone( comPort ) ); 
>    } 

This looks fine, though I would have used `while 
(sio_put(comPort,c));' (better with a timeout of course) to make sure 
the `c' got into the buffer.

> The program immediately crashes with an SIGSEGV 
> in sio_senddone(). 

Umm... did you reassemble serio.o?  There's a bug in gas (including 
2.8.1) that causes problems with serio.s.  I have the patch (should 
have been in the zip) to fix this bug, but it's for the gas source 
from binutils 2.8.1.

> The supplied terminal program also crashes, but mostly 
> with a GPF in RMCB. 
> Any idea what might be wrong? 

Did you lock the memory?  serio.doc says how at the bottom. 
Unfortuanatly, there's an error in both the doc file and term.c: the 
line is supposed to read __attribute__((constructor)), I forgot the 
's' in `constructor'.

> BTW, I had to update to NetScape 4.0, so if this post 
> contains HTML, I am sorry, send me a personal flame, or 
> even better, how to switch this idiotic feature off. 

I coped, (cut, paste, save, ....).
Bill
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