[MITgcm-devel] problem with argument list of adthe_main_loop

[Martin Losch]

Hi Patrick,

the taf flag -arglist preserves the argument list of adthe_main_loop( mytime, myiter, mythid )
(have a look at ross:/raid1/mlosch/MITgcm/cs32/build_ecco). Why not use this flag? Compatibility with tamc?

Martin

On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Patrick Heimbach wrote:

> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I haven't looked into this in a long time.
> As you see, the "broad" behavior is that
> mycurrenttime is kept for ECCO, but not otherwise.
> 
> If I remember correctly, I tried a number of ways to "recompute" mycurrenttime
> within the_main_loop and make it "self-sufficient" (e.g. use starttime), but didn't help much.
> I think I also tried the other way round, i.e. "force" TAF to keep mycurrenttime always,
> but didn't help much either.
> My hunch is it has to do with the use (or non-use) of the cost_averages... routines.
> 
> But would have to see your setup in detail ;)
> in particular, what's the difference between the two cases.
> 
> I had not pursued this further, since it seems stable for most applications,
> and can be easily changed in case of unexpected behavior.
> 
> Cheers
> -p.
> 
> On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Martin Losch wrote:
> 
>> Hi there (Patrick in particular),
>> 
>> I found this in the archives (the search functions seems to work better):
>> http://forge.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2008-June/003425.html
>> and I seem to have a similar problem in a particular configuration:
>> in ad_taf_output.f I find
>> subroutine adthe_main_loop(mythid)
>> but it's called as adthe_main_loop(mycurrenttime, mythid) from the_model_main.F
>> 
>> I have other configurations where taf properly produces "subroutine adthe_main_loop(mytime,mythid)", but I cannot see why. Both configurations use the ecco package (so ALLOW_ECCO is defined, that's why the_model_main requires mytime and mythid) and pretty similar ECCO_CPPOPTIONS.h.
>> 
>> Can you point me to the critical parameters that let taf produce the argument list with (mytime, mythid)? Is the type of cost function?
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
>> 
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