[MITgcm-devel] problem with my last checkin

Patrick Heimbach heimbach at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 5 09:52:39 EST 2008


Maybe we should have genmake2 issue a comment at the end of
successful compilation to unlimit stacksize, j.i.c.
I reckon, all people/accounts who do automated testing
have an "unlimit" statement in their shell scripts.

-Patrick



On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> No, I didn't, stupid me. The seg-fault goes away with "unlimit",  
> but still I don't see how my changes lead to a stack overflow.
>
> Also, is the "unlimit" taken care of with the automated tests?
>
> Martin
> On 5 Feb 2008, at 15:33, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>
>> Did you try the "usual" seg fault candidate first:
>>
>> unlimit
>>
>> -p.
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Martin Losch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have just checked in some functionality that is handy for  
>>> rotated spherical grids (basically a few new scalar variables in  
>>> PARAMS.h and a new subroutine that recomputes XC/YC/XG/YG in one  
>>> special case. The new code does not change the verification  
>>> experiments on my linux_ia32_g77-machine. But now I am rerunning  
>>> testreport on hugo.csail.mit.edu with the same build_options_file  
>>> and I get segmentation faults (linux_ia32_g77) for fizhi-cs- 
>>> aqualev and fizhi-cs-32x32x40. Everything else is OK.
>>>
>>> I have tried to find the problem, but the segmentation fault  
>>> happens somewhere within fizhi, here' s the debugger output
>>>>
>>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>> 0x0805aca8 in solir_ (m=0xbf897574, n=0x8581468, ndim=0x8581468,  
>>>> np=0x85810e0, wh=0xbf114b50, taucld=0xbf24cde0,  
>>>> tauclb=0xbf1c8b80, tauclf=0xbf18cb70, reff=0xbf2c4df0,  
>>>> ict=0xbf897598, icb=0xbf89759c,
>>>>     fcld=0xbf574f40, cc=0xbf204b90, taual=0xbf210dd0,  
>>>> csm=0xbefdcad0, rsirbm=0xbf47aec0, rsirdf=0xbf478eb0,  
>>>> flx=0xbf42ee40, flc=0xbf3f0e30, fdirir=0xbf472e80,  
>>>> fdifir=0xbf470e70) at fizhi_swrad.f:1732
>>>> 1732               ssaclt(i,j)=1.0
>>>> Current language:  auto; currently fortran
>>>>
>>> I have no idea what's going on, and I can't even run g77 -fbounds- 
>>> check, because in fizhi, there are so many assignments where this  
>>> array bound check chockes, e.g. variable mndy(12,4) is access via  
>>> DO I=1,48; mnc(I,1)=...; ENDDO, which is technically correct by  
>>> makes it impossible to debug these files. What am I to do? Remove  
>>> my changes again?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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