[vtkusers] Problems with the EnSight6Binary Reader

[Doug McCorkle]

On May 6, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Doug,
>
> 	The only reason the new would fail is that the value is misread and  
> in your case my guess is that is must be way too big (could you  
> confirm by doing a print on the actual value).
>
> 	Here are your alternatives: 1. try to see if VTK CVS solves this  
> isses, or 2. you'll have to send us your dataset so I can find the  
> problem.
>
Option 1 worked like a champ! Obviously you all made some nice  
improvements since the last 4.4 release. Thanks for all the help.
Doug

> Thanks
> Mathieu
>
> Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>> Doug,
>>>
>>> 	Could you play with the BigEndian vs LittleEndian flag on the
>>> EnsightReader:
>>>
>>> void vtkGenericEnSightReader::SetByteOrderToLittleEndian ()
>>> vs
>>> void vtkGenericEnSightReader::SetByteOrderToBigEndian  	()
>>>
>> I did that before posting my original email. It didn't seem to have  
>> any
>> affect.
>>> And let us know how this works
>>> Thanks
>>> Mathieu
>>>
>>> Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Doug,
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Could you please specify which VTK version are you using ? In
>>>>> particular what is the revision of the file:  
>>>>> vtkEnSight6BinaryReader.cxx
>>>>>
>>>>> vtkCxxRevisionMacro(vtkEnSight6BinaryReader, "$Revision: 1.47 $");
>>>>>                                                           ^^
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Also it would be very usefull if you could send us the actual  
>>>>> backtrace
>>>>> of the core dump.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Mathieu
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>  I am using the vtkEnSight6BinaryReader and am getting a core  
>>>>>> dump on
>>>>>> line 2230 of vtkEnSight6BinaryReader.cxx. My geo file is  
>>>>>> approximately
>>>>>> 450Mb. Is there a way to correct this problem? Thanks for the  
>>>>>> help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Here is the backtrace:
>>>>
>>>> (gdb) bt
>>>> #0  0x03736cef in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>>>> #1  0x037384f5 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>>>> #2  0x00b604b7 in __cxa_call_unexpected () from  
>>>> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
>>>> #3  0x00b60504 in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
>>>> #4  0x00b60676 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
>>>> #5  0x00b60892 in operator new () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
>>>> #6  0x00b6097f in operator new[] () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
>>>> #7  0x030a227f in  
>>>> vtkEnSight6BinaryReader::CreateUnstructuredGridOutput
>>>> (
>>>>    this=0x8f47f20, partId=1, line=0xbfffb6e0 "tetra4",
>>>>    name=0x8f486c8 "Model_rotating_zone")
>>>>    at
>>>> /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/IO/vtkEnSight6BinaryReader.cxx: 
>>>> 2230
>>>> #8  0x03095f56 in vtkEnSight6BinaryReader::ReadGeometryFile
>>>> (this=0x8f47f20,
>>>>    fileName=0x8f48148 "cast_rev1_mesh.geo", timeStep=1)
>>>>    at
>>>> /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/IO/vtkEnSight6BinaryReader.cxx:259
>>>> #9  0x030db858 in vtkEnSightReader::Execute (this=0x8f47f20)
>>>>    at /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/IO/vtkEnSightReader.cxx:264
>>>> #10 0x0525dfef in vtkSource::ExecuteData (this=0x8f47f20,  
>>>> output=0x0)
>>>>    at /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/Common/vtkSource.cxx:498
>>>> #11 0x0525dc1c in vtkSource::UpdateData (this=0x8f47f20, output=0x0)
>>>>    at /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/Common/vtkSource.cxx:408
>>>> #12 0x030dc28a in vtkEnSightReader::Update (this=0x8f47f20)
>>>>    at /mnt/rigby/home14/users/mccdo/VTK/IO/vtkEnSightReader.cxx:380
>>>> #13 0x0807b967 in enSightGoldReader::GetUnstructuredGrid
>>>> (this=0x8f47ec8,
>>>> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
>>>>    caseFileName=0x8097be0 "cast_rev1.case", debug=0)
>>>>    at enSightGoldReader.cpp:65
>>>> #14 0x0805b914 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffba54) at
>>>> translateToVtk.cpp:615
>>>>
>>>> Version number 1.38.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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