Thread: MIPS to ICC endian problem

Hi all. I have a program that I have been compiling using MIPS compiler. I have recently been tasked to port this to our new Intel system using icc.

It compiles fine, but when I run it, I get "Segmentation fault" with no other info.

Someone suggested it may be an endian problem. I turned on warnings and it seems like every one of my macro definitions has a problem.

Here is an example of the first one I have come to:

Code:

#define DEBUG_ENTER(name) {tdepth++;  
 if(tnames[tdepth] == NULL) tnames[tdepth] = memalign(8, sizeof(char)*MAXLEN); 
 strcopy(tnames[tdepth],name); 
 FU_DEBUG("Entering \n");}

What is actually going wrong here? How do I fix this in my program? It is a really large piece of software with many many macros and such. Is there a compiler "switch" that can correct this problem?

I think I figured it out. I thought memalign was something standard (it's in stdlib) but it is only for the IRIX platform. It is made to allocated the space with a certain alignment. I am going to try to switch them to plain alloc statements and see what happens. memalign is not supported in icc..but for some reason doesnt throw an error?