Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lowekamp@cs.cmu.edu (Bruce Lowekamp)
Subject: Re: Q: Forwarding messages with 3.3.8
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: 28 Aug 1995 11:47:30 GMT
Message-ID: <41saci$p7u@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>

In article <ADRIAAN.95Aug24152933@nereid.lpac.ac.uk>,
Adriaan Joubert <adriaan@lpac.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>	I've got a problem with forwarding messages under pvm 3.3.8 on
>OSF/1 V3.2. I receive a message in a process which distributes work, read
>the first two integers from the message, and then send it on:
...
>
>This works fine under 3.3.7, but I get a segmentation fault in enc_xdr_init
>in lpvmpack.c in the call to xdrmem_create. 
...
>My question is: is unpacking the first two elements from the message my
>problem?

This is a bug in pvm 3.3.8.  The pvm group knows about the bug and
will have it fixed in the next release.  I am not aware of what the
timeframe is for that, however.

Bruce
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