OpenEuphoria

RE: IRC client

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 14, 2002
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On 15 Jan 2002, at 6:45, bensler at mail.com wrote:

> 
> I just downloaded the update, and it failed to connect my IRC client..
> I am correct, it only pokes the first byte, you need to poke2 the port 
> value. I tested already, and it works.

I remember now! there was no poke2 before! (or i didn't know of it.) So 
instead of two pokes, i changed both lines to poke4, which doesn't hurt 
anything.

Kat


> Chris
> 
> bensler at mail.com wrote:
> > Still looking at that code..
> >    port_addr = allocate(2)
> >    poke(port_addr, port)
> > 
> > Wouldn't this poke only the 1st byte of the port value?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > Kat wrote:
> > > On 15 Jan 2002, at 4:38, bensler at mail.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Now that I relook at Kat's fix, I'm surprised to find that she was 
> > > > incorrect! Shame on you Kat :P
> > > > 
> > > > Socket variables should be atoms, but the second fix allocates 4 bytes
> > > > for
> > > > the port, when it can never exceed 2 bytes.
> > > 
> > > Naturally, i would not have figured out the 2nd patch if i had not still 
> > > 
> > > had a 
> > > problem. Once i did this, everything ran fine. <shrug>
> > > 
> > > > So, yes, only the socket variables need to be changed to atoms.
> > > > Other than that, I've used every TCP routine in the lib, and have run
> > > > into
> > > > no problems.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Chris
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ray Smith wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > bensler at mail.com wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Chris (and Kat),
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have taken your advice and attempted to update euTcp4u.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I put the below changes into my source and tried to run my test
> > > > > programs but they failed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With the changes you have made can you run the "server.exw" and
> > > > > "client.exw" that come with euTcp4u?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I left "connect_socket" as an atom but removed the second change and
> > > > > my
> > > > > test programs work again. Does your IRC code work if the second change
> > > > > is not used?
> > > 
> > > No, it didn't. I still had a problem, which this patch took care of. 
> > > However, i 
> > > dio not remember if it was a problem in tcp4u, or the 2-byte allocation
> > > code. For normal web browsing on port 80, 2 bytes worked fine, i ran into
> > > problem when using ports over 32767 for localhost connections, like 50004.
> > > Maybe 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > it's a problem with the sign bit on a signed 2byte signed integer? I 
> > > don't just 
> > > remember, sorry, but the 4-byte allocation made it work like a breeze.
> > > 
> > > I still have not gotten my irc code working again. The actual connect 
> > > part is 
> > > fine, as far as i can tell, but the server-specific logging into nested
> > > sequences is the problem,, i wish we could get nested values in huge
> > > sequences in debug, displayed as needed. The code to store data is like 8
> > > lines, the code to display fields as i debug is 50+ lines. Doing an abort
> > > to
> > > get a ex.err still doesn't show me enough. 
> > > 
> > > Kat
> > > 
> > > 
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