[Mitgcm-support] RE: variable blabla

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Quoting Chris Hill <cnh at plume.mit.edu>:

> Hello, hows Germany?

OK.

> Surely timer_stats.F shouldn't be bothering Stpehanie
> should it? i.e. it should not appear on other 
> machines and then she wouldn't have to make it go 
> away.

She shouldn't, so it shouldn't, should it.

> Also "blabla" doesn't seem like a very good name 
> for a variable. Generally we have all been very
> disciplined about using meaningful and informative
> variable names. I don't think we should abandon that
> approach. Maybe it means something in German?

Don't know. It doesn't appear in German dictionnaries.
Maybe ask the author of that routine, i.e. IBM.

Patrick


> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heimbach at mit.edu [mailto:heimbach at mit.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:52 PM
> To: Chris Hill
> Cc: Support at Mitgcm.Org
> Subject: Re: variable blabla
> 
> 
> Not sure wheher this applies, but:
> timer_stats.c is specific for the ibm sp3 wher it replaces tim.c
> Maybe stephanie doesn't need/have to bother about this routine.
> P.
> 
> Quoting Chris Hill <cnh at plume.mit.edu>:
> 
> > What is blabla anybody?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephanie Dutkiewicz [mailto:stephd at plume.mit.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:00 AM
> > To: Chris Hill
> > Subject: compiler error
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Chris -
> > I'm trying to compile c44 on lego (with mpi).
> > Before (ie c38) I had to cc -c -64 tim.c to get it to work.
> > Now there it complains about timer_stats being n32 not n64.
> > But when I try cc -c -64 timer_stats.c I get the following
> > error:
> > lego:ocmip/bin % cc -c -64 timer_stats.c
> > cc-1552 cc: WARNING File = timer_stats.c, Line = 11
> >   The variable "blabla" is set but never used.
> > 
> >        clock_t blabla;
> >                ^
> > 
> > cc-1552 cc: WARNING File = timer_stats.c, Line = 21
> >   The variable "blabla" is set but never used.
> > 
> >        clock_t blabla;
> > 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > Thanks
> > steph
> > 
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