Re: [Arsperl-users] ARSystem 8.1 files still 32-bit

[Misi M. <mi...@rr...>]

Hi,

What platform did you do this on?

A spontaneous guess would be that the memory allocation is done differently in
perl than in libar. How do we investigate this further?

        Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se

> Yes. I spent a bit of time looking at this.
>
> compiling a short C program against the 64bit API works fine
> compiling the same C code as an XS module results in an RPC error
>
> for some reason libperl  + libar don't like each other
>
> jeff
>
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Paul Blasquez <pbl...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Ah, I haven't been following this subject as closely as I had thought,
>> apologies. I had thought that the reason for no 64-bit ARSPerl was that BMC
>> had not yet provided the libraries.
>>
>> So if I understand correctly, the 64 bit libraries do exist and ARSPerl will
>> compile, but the resulting module does not function correctly.
>>
>> Is that right?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Misi Mladoniczky <mi...@rr...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This would not be a BMC problem I think.
>>
>> I have compiled and run many C-API-programs with the 64-bit linux libraries.
>> They work fine.
>>
>>         Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se
>>
>> > I think there is a misunderstanding.  AR API files exist in both 32 and 64
>> Bit
>> > versions. You should see some files with a suffix of _lx64.so if you're on
>> > linux. The suffix is, for whatever reason, platform dependent.
>> >
>> > But unfortunately no one was able to compile a working ARSPerl using 64
>> Bit
>> > libraries on linux. It compiles fine but when you're trying to connect to
>> an
>> > ar-server it throws some RPC errors.
>> >
>> > I've opened a ticket at BMC Support, but they closed it with "No Plans to
>> Fix"
>> > :-(
>> >
>> > Regards Conny
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > Von: Paul Blasquez [mailto:pbl...@gm...]
>> > Gesendet: Montag, 25. Februar 2013 07:33
>> > An: ARSperl User Discussion
>> > Betreff: [Arsperl-users] ARSystem 8.1 files still 32-bit
>> >
>> > Misi,
>> >
>> > I took the liberty of downloading the AR API files from your ARSList post,
>> > looks like it's still 32-bit:
>> >
>> > $ file libar.so
>> > libar.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not
>> > stripped
>> >
>> > Can you confirm?  It makes me wonder if BMC even knows we are waiting for
>> 64
>> > bit libraries here.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > -Paul
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