Venki-
> I am working on a test application where I am
reading/writing files
> for processing. On the simulator everything is working perfect, but
> when running on emulator/board, the fopen() returns null. It is
> happening quite frequently, but not all the time. I also tried with
> both relative (w.r.t executable file) and absolute files paths. The
> part of the code is here; can some one help what is going wrong.
>
> char rOutfile[200]="../testvecs/op/r_out.out";
> char bOutfile[200]="../testvecs/op/b_out.yuv";
>
> fpr = fopen(rOutfile, "wb");
> if (!fpr) {
> /* control almost always comes here */
> return;
> }
> fpb = fopen(bOutfile, "wb");
> if ( !fpb) {
> /* control almost always comes here */
> fclose(fpr);
> return;
> }
I'm not sure of the reason for the NULL return, but I might make a couple
of
comments:
1) If you are running the above code during real-time processing -- i.e. when
other
code/interrupts/DMA is making onchip memory bus and CPU demands -- then you
are
likely to see problems. CCS file I/O uses the JTAG emulator connection, which
is
typically very slow, causing code such as the above to take a long time and in
turn
affect timing and performance.
2) Normally CCS file I/O should only be used "when nothing else is going on",
for
example at the beginning of main() to initialize some arrays, or at a known
"stop or
pause point" for debug purposes.
You could try some things to improve efficiency. You could open the files in
main.c
before real-time code starts, and save the file handles. Then you could save
the
data in memory after each frame, and write to file later, maybe after N number
of
frames were processed.
-Jeff