We are working on a homework on CELL programming for college and their feedback response to our questions is kinda slow, thought i can get some faster answers here.

I have a PPU side code which tries to open a file passed down through char* argv[], however this doesn't work it cannot make the assignment of the pointer, i get a NULL.

Now my first idea was that the file isn't in the correct directory and i copied in every possible and logical place, my second idea is that maybe the PPU wants this pointer in its LS area, but i can't deduce if that's the bug or not. So...

My question is what am i doing wrong?

I am working with a Fedora 7 SDK Cell, with Eclipse as an IDE. Maybe my argument setup is wrong tho he gets the name of the file correctly.

Code on request:

images_t *read_bin_data(char *name)
{
    FILE *file;
    images_t *img;
    uint32_t *buffer;
    uint8_t buf;
    unsigned long fileLen;
    unsigned long i;

    //Open file
    file = (FILE*)malloc(sizeof(FILE));
    file = fopen(name, "rb");
    printf("[Debug]Opening file %s\n",name);
    if (!file)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open file %s", name);
        return NULL;
    }
  //.......

}

Main launch:

int main(int argc,char* argv[]) {
   int i,img_width;
   int modif_this[4] __attribute__ ((aligned(16))) = {1,2,3,4};
   images_t *faces, *nonfaces;

   spe_context_ptr_t ctxs[SPU_THREADS];
   pthread_t threads[SPU_THREADS];
   thread_arg_t arg[SPU_THREADS];
   //intializare img_width
   img_width = atoi(argv[1]);
   printf("[Debug]Img size is %i\n",img_width);
   faces = read_bin_data(argv[3]);
 //.......

}

Thanks for the help.