[MITgcm-devel] Strings and netcdf

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:44, Chris Hill wrote:
> Hi Ed/Alistair,
> 
>  Whats the plan? Is it worth doing the fix so that strings don't go across
> the compiler - compiler interface explicitly? What do you think?


If we write a wiz-bang two-layer string conversion library *only* to
avoid compiling NetCDF for the different compilers, then I think its a
waste of time.

If we write a more general interface for calls between Fortran and
C/C++, then perhaps its worth the effort.  Has something like this
already been done with ESMF?  I downloaded esmf_2_0_0rp2 last night,
built the docs, and read all about their NetCDF interface.  So far,
they've punted on a number of issues including basic things like:

  from ESMF_builddetail.tex:
  "The current release of the system is prepared to link with the
   {\tt netCDF} I/O libraries, but since the installation of the
   libraries and include files varies widely from system to system
   support for them is disabled by default."

Ed

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