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From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
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To: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU
Subject: Re: INVEXCEPTN bugcheck caused by VMS 5.4-1 LATmaster
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In-Reply-To: article <9101080412.AA21971@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> of 7 Jan 91 17:57 EST

/* acf3:comp.os.vms / RR@SWTEXAS.BITNET /  5:57 pm  Jan  7, 1991 */
VMS 5.4-1 with LATmaster crashes with:

  INVEXCEPTN, Exception while above ASTDEL or on interrupt stack

LTDRIVER (image file id X6.0-212) caused the crash.
The instruction (at LTDRIVER+01ECC) BISW2 #02,78(R5)
causes the access violation because R5 gets zeroed
by a MOVC3 earlier in the code stream.

When the above was reported to Digital CSC the attached
patch was supplied.

R.R. Rodriguez
RR@SWTEXAS.BITNET

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Workaround received from CSC:
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Extract and cut the following set of PATCH commands as a command
procedure, then execute it.  The procedure will modify the LATmaster
LTDRIVER image to workaround this problem.
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$ SET DEFAULT SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]
$ PATCH LTDRIVER
SET ECO 2
REPLACE/INSTRUCTION 01ECC
'BISW2 #02,B^78(R5)'
EXIT
'MOVL B^14(R9),R5'
'BISW2 #02,B^78(R5)'
EXIT
UPDATE
EXIT
$ EXIT
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Example of Patch Application:

Extract the above twelve lines and placed them in a command procedure
called FIXLAT.COM.  Then, executed this command procedure as shown
below.  The indented lines are the echoed commands from your command
procedure:

$ SET PROCESS/PRIV=   ! whatever is necessary to modify LTDRIVER
$ SET VERIFY
$ @FIXLAT
        $ SET DEFAULT SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]
        $ PATCH LTDRIVER

          PATCH  Version 4-00    15-Sep-1984

        Image does not contain local symbols
        Some or all global symbols not accessible
        PATCH> SET ECO 2
        PATCH> REPLACE/INSTRUCTION 01ECC
        OLD> 'BISW2 #02,B^78(R5)'
        OLD> EXIT
        NEW> 'MOVL B^14(R9),R5'
        NEW> 'BISW2 #02,B^78(R5)'
        NEW> EXIT
        old:    00001ECC:  BISW2   #02,B^78(R5)
        new:    00001ECC:  BRW     PAA
        new:    00001ECF:  NOP
        new:    PAA:  MOVL    B^14(R9),R5
        new:    00000204:  BISW2   #02,B^78(R5)
        new:    00000208:  BRW     00001ED0
        PATCH> UPDATE
        Updating image file SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]LTDRIVER.EXE;2
        PATCH> EXIT
$ SET NOVERIFY

You should reboot your system or cluster for the changes to take effect.


SOLUTION:

Digital expects that this problem will be corrected in a future release
of the LATmaster software.
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