[Developers] New local reduction operators

[Erik Schnetter]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:54:41, Yaakoub El Khamra wrote:

>
> I'm afraid I have a bit more bad news, on nemeaux this is the error  
> I get:
> Compiling /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/yye00/ 
> nemeauxCactus/arrangements/AlphaThorns/LocalReduce/src/reduce.c
> In file included from /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/ 
> yye00/nemeauxCactus/configs/testAll/build/LocalReduce/reduce.c:9:
> /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/yye00/nemeauxCactus/ 
> arrangements/AlphaThorns/LocalReduce/src/reduce.h:82: error:  
> invalid use of `restrict'
> /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/yye00/nemeauxCactus/ 
> arrangements/AlphaThorns/LocalReduce/src/reduce.h:85: error:  
> invalid use of `restrict'
> /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/yye00/nemeauxCactus/ 
> configs/testAll/build/LocalReduce/reduce.c:20: error: invalid use  
> of `restrict'
> /private/automount/Volumes/xserveraid/home/yye00/nemeauxCactus/ 
> configs/testAll/build/LocalReduce/reduce.c:23: error: invalid use  
> of `restrict'
>
> I am compiling a fixed version though, I will wait until I finish  
> all the testing before I commit.

The code is correct.  What compiler version is this?

The "correct" way to solve this problem is to auto-detect whether the  
compiler supports restrict in all the ways it can be used, or only in  
some ways.  Try the following patch, then rerun autoconf, and  
reconfigure your configuration:

Index: aclocal.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cactusdevcvs/Cactus/lib/make/aclocal.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 aclocal.m4
--- aclocal.m4	28 Sep 2005 17:09:31 -0000	1.13
+++ aclocal.m4	9 Mar 2006 19:58:32 -0000
@@ -281,7 +281,10 @@
[AC_CACHE_CHECK([for C restrict], cctk_cv_c_restrict,
[cctk_cv_c_restrict=no
for ac_kw in restrict __restrict__ __restrict; do
-  AC_TRY_COMPILE(, [double * $ac_kw foo;], [cctk_cv_c_restrict= 
$ac_kw; break])
+  AC_TRY_COMPILE(, [
+double * $ac_kw foo;
+void bar (void * $ac_kw arr[]);
+], [cctk_cv_c_restrict=$ac_kw; break])
done
])
case "$cctk_cv_c_restrict" in
@@ -297,7 +300,10 @@
AC_LANG_SAVE
AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
for ac_kw in restrict __restrict__ __restrict; do
-  AC_TRY_COMPILE(, [double * $ac_kw foo;], [cctk_cv_cxx_restrict= 
$ac_kw; break])
+  AC_TRY_COMPILE(, [
+double * $ac_kw foo;
+void bar (void * $ac_kw arr[]);
+], [cctk_cv_cxx_restrict=$ac_kw; break])
done
AC_LANG_RESTORE
])

-erik

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