[MITgcm-devel] mnc warning messages

[mlosch at awi-bremerhaven.de]

Hi Ed,

thanks, if you are already working on this, then I will complain no more (o:

Martin

Martin Losch
Alfred Wegener Institute 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 10:26 pm
Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] mnc warning messages

> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:07 +0200, mlosch at awi-bremerhaven.de wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have to admit that these warning messages of the type:
> > "MNC_CW_ADD_VATTR_ANY WARNING: attribute value 'Merid. Planetary 
> Coriolis Acceleration (f x U)' has more than     
> > 40 characters and has been truncated to fit"
> > are a little annoying as the appear with every single run, 
> because even the long_name attributes of the grid.nc files are 
> > longer than 40 characters. I would suggest either increasing this 
> limit, so that the name that "we" have created fit and the 
> > warning is only issued if someone introduces now variables names, 
> or change the variable names of the standard 
> > variables (such as the grid parameters) so that they fit the 40 
> char limit.
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> The really-quick-fix is to increase the size of:
> 
>      parameter ( MNC_MAX_CHAR =     40 )
> 
> in pkg/mnc/MNC_SIZE.h to 80+ characters.  And the downside of that
> quick-fix is that MNC will consume a lot more RAM.  But perhaps 
> thats OK
> for you.
> 
> After a few off-list complaints, I drastically reduced the memory
> footprint of MNC by shrinking the size of most strings within the 
> lookuptables.  The change also improved path handling for filenames-
> -much
> longer paths are now allowed.  But the change also caused the above
> warnings.  I'm working on a modification that will increase the 
> size of
> the text strings used for attributes (while keeping the other 
> strings at
> the current, shorter size) and will check it in soon.
> 
> Ed
> 
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