[MITgcm-devel] filename issue when packing controls with mdsioLocaldir

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Dan,

Regarding this:
> > Another thing:
> > I noticed the halfpipe_streamice experiment is now failing (has been for
> > some time?).
> > Accuracies of the gradient aren’t as good as they used to be.

I sent to MITgcm-devel (+ cc to dngoldberg at gmail.com) the following email:
http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2014-April/006066.html
but did not get any answer yet.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:56:02PM +0100, Daniel Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Patrick Heimbach <heimbach at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I don’t think I understood your email.
> > Why would you want to have white spaces in a filename?
> > Also, a detailed bug report would be more useful.
> >
> 
> Sorry for the confusing description.
> 
> I am fairly sure the bug is caused by this call within ctrl_set_pack_xy.F
> (but need to test further to be certain):
> 
>       call MDSREADFIELD_3D_GL(
>      &     masktype, ctrlprec, 'RL',
>      &     Nr, globmsk, 1, mythid)
> 
> and then on line 132 of mdsio_gl.F:
> 
>       write(fName,'(2a)') mdsioLocalDir(1:pIL), fName(1:IL)
> 
> is causing it to fail if pIL>0, but I am not sure why. mdsio_gl.F has not
> been changed recently, so I am wondering if previously MASKTYPE previously
> had trailing whitespace which would allow for the extra characters to be
> appended, but has been removed in recent updates.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Another thing:
> > I noticed the halfpipe_streamice experiment is now failing (has been for
> > some time?).
> > Accuracies of the gradient aren’t as good as they used to be.
> >
> 
> on which machine are the results you're looking at run? TAF or OpenAD?
> 
> 
> > Do you know what has changed?
> >
> 
> the only major thing is that I added an advancing ice front to the test,
> but I produced a new results file. this was a few months back...
> 
> 
> >
> > Cheers
> > p.
> >
> > On Apr 26, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Daniel Goldberg <dngoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > On Matt Mazloff's suggestion I have been using ALLOW_PACKUNPACK_METHOD2
> > to allow for the control package to work while using mdsioLocalDir, and it
> > was working until I did a fresh checkout two days ago. The bug seems to be
> > occurring at line 132 of mdsio_gl.F:
> > >
> > >  write(fName,'(2a)') mdsioLocalDir(1:pIL), fName(1:IL)
> > >
> > > where the S/R is called for ctrlMaskC. The input arg fname has been
> > declared as
> > >
> > >  character*(*) fName
> > >
> > > and there is no whitespace. Perhaps there was whitespace before and that
> > allowed for the above line of code to execute, and now it has been clipped?
> > I could be completely off though, but I was able to use mdsioLocalDir
> > without issue before my most recent checkout (prior checkout was ~ 2 months
> > ago).
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > --
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> 
> Daniel Goldberg, PhD
> Lecturer in Glaciology
> School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
> Geography Building, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP
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> 
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