ncmpi_sterror: slight behavior change.
Rob Latham
robl at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jun 18 10:57:38 CDT 2012
Working towards a release, I promise.
ncmpi_strerror /nfmpi_strerror turns a parallel-netcdf error code into
a human readable string. NC_EBADID becomes "NetCDF: Not a valid ID",
for example.
If someone passes in a bogus error code, serial netcdf returns the
string "Unknown Error".
We used to do that but decided it would be better to have a more
helpful error message:
"Unrecognized pnetcdf error code: ID" (where ID is the unrecognized
error id).
I just wanted to double check with the wider pnetcdf community that
such a change in behavior would be OK. It's sort of a programming
interface change, but I hope no one (or more accurately, no computer
program or testing script) was looking for a literal "Unknown Error"
from ncmpi_error.
==rob
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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA
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