When I built the netcdf package on SGI/IRIX 4.0.5, the message generated
during the testing of xdr is like this:
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Making `test' in /people_a/frank/netcdf/netcdf/xdr
2c2
< bytes: 254 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
---
> bytes: -2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
*** XDR fails formatted test ***
The above differences are OK if small
*** XDR passes binary test ***
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Is the difference between '254' and '-2' **SMALL**?
I believe that message is for comparing the difference in vax and ieee
floating point format. 'od' command shows that the byte in question is
'0xfe'.
My question is: is this correct?
The 'xdrtest.c' declare those eight bytes to be
'static unsigned char bytes[8]' for XDR_PUTBYTES
but use 'signed char *bp' for XDR_GETBYTES
Is this problem with IRIX's xdr or just for xdrtest.c?
Does ncdump affected when dealing with byte variables?
Does system default setting of signed/unsigned for char/byte
affect netcdf package?
-Frank Chen
P.S. Is there anyone successfully compile the hdf-netcdf stuff on
SGI/IRIX?(including fortran testing). It fails when calling tncredf.
