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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: NCS/RPC question
Message-ID: <30468@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 00:12:59 GMT
Reply-To: joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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I'm trying to get an NCS/RPC application written.  I've got a client
and server which are almost identical to the binoplu example.

Whenever I try to run the client I get this error:

*** Exiting: exception caught by PFM system cleanup handler
*** odd address error (OS/fault handler)

The binoplu example runs on my machine, so the location broker must be
working.  I copied most of my code from pages 34-36 of NETWORK 
COMPUTING SYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL by Kong et al.

My specific questions are:
    Does this error mean something specific?  Or is it a SNAFU type message?
    Are there typos in the book which might be biting me?

A slightly more general question is this:
    How do I specify (in NIDL) a routine which will return a variable
    number of integers, when the exact number will only be known by
    the server routine at run time.  What I want is something like this:

    int cr$ints(
        handle_t [in] h ,
        int [out] *osize , 
        int [out,last_is(osize)] odata[]
    ) ;

    This doesn't work, since osize must be an [in,out] paramter or 
    nidl will not accept it.  Because of problem one, I do not know
    if this will work at run time at all.  (Is this causing problem
    one?)

This is all happening on a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.0.3 and NCK/NIDL 1.5.1.

Thanks for any help.  

Joshua Levy (joshua@atherton.com)