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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

560.0. "mcc_entity dispatch table instance parameter" by TENERE::MCDONALD () Mon Dec 17 1990 07:16

    On page 177 of the SRM v1.1 section 7.7 , for mcc_entity
    -specify a dispatch entry entity, it says that for the instance
    parameter an instance can be a text string of zero or more characters,
    ... or *.  However when I try to use a text string as the instance
    parameter, I get an access violation during enrollment of my AM.
    I tried the text string with and without quotes. Am I doing something
    wrong , or is this really supported? Can someone give an example of how
    it would work? (My AM works fine when I use the * for this parameter).
    Thanks,
    Carol

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
560.1	needs investigation	GOSTE::CALLANDER		`Mon Dec 17 1990 18:15`	4
	could you give us the exact syntax that you used? thanks
560.2	Seems to work okay for us	TOOK::GUERTIN	E = mcc	`Mon Dec 17 1990 19:09`	18
	We have tested dispatching on strings and it seems to work okay for us. MCC_DISPATCH_ENTRY - SHOW,- <MCC_ENTITY <MCC><myclasscodegoeshere,THESTRING>>,- CHAR,- myshowroutineforthestring It would be helpful to know what exactly does not work so we can try to duplicate the behavior (and add it to our regression tests). Note that having strings as instances to dispatch on is not useful, so no one talks about it much. You cannot really dispatch very easily on just an ASCII string. Maybe you have a Latin1String for an instance datatype? In any case, it is supported (until someone asks us to get rid of it). -Matt.
560.3	Ex of what I tried	TENERE::MCDONALD		`Tue Dec 18 1990 07:22`	12
	Here is what I tried: mcc_dispatch_entry - CREATE,- <mcc_entity <CMEAGT, *>,<CMEAGT_TESTOBJ,CAROL>>,- NULL,- mcc_TESTOBJ__create_TESTOBJ Yes the instance datatype is Latin1String. I realize this is not usually so important, but I wanted to try something where one instance of a class is dispatched to one AM the other instances are dispatched to another AM (remote).
560.4	Still confused	TENERE::MCDONALD		`Thu Dec 20 1990 13:45`	20
	I still do not understand why this does not work for me, does the instance need to be a certain datatype? I tried it with the YOURMM example: mcc_dispatch_entry - SHOW,- <mcc_entity <YOURMM,TESTSTRING>>,- CHAR,- mcc_yourmm__show_char I got the result: MCC> ENROLL MCC_YOURMM %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=00000019, PC =00012119, PSL=03C00000 %SYSTEM-E-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=0000000A, PC =0000000A, PSL=0000000F
560.5	hum...	GOSTE::CALLANDER		`Thu Dec 20 1990 14:26`	5
	I gave it a quick try, my didn't access violate but I couldn't get the dispatcher to do the checking either. Matt, I think some one should probably check into this a bit.
560.6		TOOK::SWIST	Jim Swist LKG2-2/T2 DTN 226-7102	`Thu Dec 20 1990 17:15`	15
	Compile time dispatch by instance is broken since there is no way to tell the macro what the datatype of the instance is - nor is there any way to specify identifiers other than strings. It may be that certain combinations work but don't bet on it. There has been no incentive to fix this since compiletime specification of per-instance dispatch is pretty useless. However, when we go distributed, run time specification of per-instance dispatch (e.g I want instance X of the bridge AM to service bridge Y) will be an absolute necessity. We were going to clean up the compiletime case when we implemented the runtime case. This should probably be QARed against the SRM.