Re: Help with Copying Shared Memory to Local

[John_J_Cupak@raytheon.com (John Cupak)]

"John Cupak" <Jcupak744@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<hoWH8.4604$jv5.1045024@typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net>...
> Jeffry, et al,
> 
> As this is Memorial Day weekend, and I'm not at work, I can't ask the person
> who brought this problem
> to my attention just what processor they're using. But, I suspect that this
> is a very restricted embedded
> processor/system and that the timing/chip/etc problem is VERY applicable to
> the solution here.
> 
> When I get into work on Tuesday, I'll ask for hardware details - something I
> (a poor software engineer)
> forgot to do when presented with the problem.
> 
> John

Well, I talked to the programmer who posed this problem to me, and he
said that the computer hardware is "Standard VME", but that the shared
memory card is old, poorly-documented, and "home-brewed". He promised
to get me what information he can on the memory card in a day or so.

He also mentioned when he created two byte arrays and mapped them to
the shared and local memory, the compiler would NOT let him write
A:=B, but he COULD write A(I):=B(I), where the index, I, was a
double-byte index. I suspect there's some 16-bit addressing / transfer
going on at the hardware board level.

We'll know more in a day or two.

John