Hi Alexey,
I tried the same line of codes in my free time and what I could see is that
when you perform strcpy the string was copied with '/0' but since you only
receive 4 characters it can only receive the 'asdf' but not '/0' which
seems a bit strange in the nature. I think this is because the
MPI_Send/Recev isn't defined to send and recieve 'strings' but only
character buffers. So when you recieve the buffer only with 'asdf' printf
tends to print asdf + some garbage characters since theres no termination
for the string (I also saw +3 garbage charactors :)). So the solution is to
make sure you send strlen() + 1 and recieve strlen() + 1. If you arent sure
about the receiving length, do a MPI_Probe and allocate the necessary
buffer. So its really important to have enough space in the send buffer to
hold the "asdf' which is strlen('asdf') + 1, and on the receive side,
recieve from a strlen('asdf') + 1 buffer. I guess this is the difference of
sending character buffers from sending 'strings' using MPI_Send/Recv.
Correct me someone if I'm wrong!
PS: I think reboot is just a trick that won't yeild to a solution :).
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:43 PM, jody <jody....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alexey
> No, strlen() does not include the '\0' - this is what 'man strlen' says:
>
> STRLEN(3) Linux Programmer’s Manual
> STRLEN(3)
>
> NAME
> strlen - calculate the length of a string
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <string.h>
>
> size_t strlen(const char *s);
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The strlen() function calculates the length of the
> string s, not
> including the terminating ’\0’ character.
>
> RETURN VALUE
> The strlen() function returns the number of characters in s.
>
> If your code worked after reboot, you were just lucky that a 0-character
> followed our string. The problem may appear again anytime if you don't
> increase your message length to strlen(chdata[i])+1.
>
> Jody
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Alexey Sokolov<gabb...@niir.ru> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thank you for advising, but my problem disappeared after rebooting as it
> > has never been. I really don't know why it was in this way, but I didn't
> > change anything and now it works correctly. May be it was connected with
> > system update without rebooting after it (I use Fedora 10), don't truly
> > know.
> >
> > Anyway thank you for your help and paying me attention.
> >
> > PS: I typed you a little bit wrong code. In the original code i get the
> > string length with strlen(chdata[i]), so the null-terminator should be
> > counted.
> >
> > Sincerely yours, Alexey.
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 16:47 +0200, Dorian Krause wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> you do not send the trailing '0' which is used to determine the
> >> stringlength. I assume that chdata[i] has at least length 5 (otherwise
> >> you overrun your memory). Replace the "4" by "5" in MPI_Isend and
> >> MPI_Recv and everything should work (If I get the problem right).
> >>
> >> Dorian.
> >>
> >>
> >> Alexey Sokolov wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I'm sorry if the answer to my question is very simple, but I'm really
> >> > confused with this situation.
> >> >
> >> > I got a program that now contains 1 master and 1 slave processes.
> Master
> >> > process sends few similar chars to the slave process with this:
> >> >
> >> > for (unsigned i = 0; i < SomeVariable; i++) {
> >> > strcpy(chdata[i], "asdf");
> >> > MPI_Isend(chdata[i], 4, MPI_CHAR, SLAVE, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD,
> >> > &req[i]);
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > And the slave process receives them with this:
> >> >
> >> > for (unsigned i = 0; i < SomeVariable; i++) {
> >> > char * buf = new char[10];
> >> > MPI_Recv(buf, 4, MPI_CHAR, MASTER, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD,
> &stat);
> >> > printf("Received data [%s] of length %d\n", buf,
> strlen(buf));
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > As I understand output should be "Received data [asdf] of length 4",
> but
> >> > instead of this I got my 'asdf' with additional 3 random ANSI
> characters
> >> > in string of length 7.
> >> >
> >> > I've already spent few hours to find the mistake out but
> unsuccessfully.
> >> > I do successfully transfer int data in the similar way, but this case
> >> > make me crazy. Could you help me to find out where did I fail in this?
> >> >
> >> > Sincerely yours, Alexey.
> >> >
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