[ts-gen] MacOS Shim problems

[Mike Thornton]

Hi Bill,

Does the current release re-enable order submission in risk mode?

Thanks.
-Mike

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Bill Pippin <pippin at owlriver.net> wrote:

> Ric,
>
> Thanks for your patience to this point.  I suspect I've fixed the
> problem --- lacking a local reproducer, I can't be sure until you've
> tried it --- and if not, I'm sure we're close to finding the problem.
>
> Please download the newest of today's releases, and try it out on OSX.
> It should work, at least past the point you've seen problems up until
> now.
>
> You need to make sure you have the newest release I pushed to our
> website today.  You can check this by looking near the top of the
> NEWS file for the following text:
>
>      * Fix bug whereby strcmp return value outside {-1, 0, 1}, as
>        evidently occurs for OSX stdlib, leads to a hang during
>        search.  Changes consist of: adding the appropriate enum
>        type, making its definition visible everywhere, converting
>        from the int return for strcmp() to this type via multiple,
>        explicit conditional tests in lib/string.h, narrowing int
>        type declarations for the comparison result to the enum
>        type, adding an exception as the default case in the switch
>        where the type is tested, and adding trace logic to indicate
>        what has happened when a type violation occurs.
>
> If you still have problems, feel free to uncomment the print_line()
> call in leaf.c, though I suspect you'll find that the shim is getting
> past that point with no problems.
>
> In any case, please let us know what your result is when you run the
> shim on OSX.
>
> Also, about your running the shim with Ubuntu:
>
> > I got Ubuntu up and running in a VMWare instance so I could try help
> > a little in isolation, it does not seem to hang now but I do seem to
> > have some parsing errors.
>
> This is interesting, since it pretty much verifies that your database
> symbols are at least minimally sufficient for whatever portfolio
> download records the shim is seeing.  This rules out some weird
> database product lookup problem, which already seemed out of the
> question, but it didn't hurt to check.
>
> Nevertheless, you should be able to run the shim on OSX.  I very
> much appreciate your efforts to help us get it running there, and
> thanks especially for your valiant efforts in debugging from your
> end.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
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