In general wouldn't you dynamic_cast the sender state pointer, and couldn't you then check it for NULL? I suppose if the pointer's totally wrong then you wouldn't know what would happen, but I think that's unavoidable.
Gabe Ali Saidi wrote: > We've been seeing a few of these type things lately. What do people > think about putting a magic field at the beginning of everyones opaque > data structure that is unique with respect to the sender. We could > compile it out for m5.fast and that way anyone time that a memory > request was received we could assert that senderState->senderMagic == > MAGIC. It would probably catch these problems much faster than waiting > around for another assert to randomly get tripped. > > Ali > > > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Ali Saidi wrote: > > >> I'm not completely sure, but each packet has an opaque pointer that it >> sends along with the packet that must be restored before the response >> is send back to the host. In the case of a store for the o3 cpu, this >> pointer contains information about the instruction, slot in the store >> queue, etc. If the pointer was trashed or not properly restored, you >> would likely see this error. >> >> Ali >> >> On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Shoaib Akram wrote: >> >> >>> I never touched any thing outside the memory system. I am getting >>> this assertion failur. Any idea what might be the problem? >>> >>> m5.opt: build/ALPHA_SE/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:882: void >>> LSQUnit<Impl>::completeStore(int) [with Impl = O3CPUImpl]: Assertion >>> `storeQueue[store_idx].inst' failed. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> m5-users mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
