[Developers] [Patches] check available timelevels for static boundary condition

[Erik Schnetter]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:11 , Frank Loeffler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this patch checks the available timelevels for a variable before it
> attempts a memcpy.
>
> In the case of failure, this changes a segfault to an informative
> message, which makes debugging this case much easier.
>
> In case of success, it adds a test every time the static boundary
> condition is called, for each variable. I am not sure about the  
> overhead
> this creates (a call to CCTK_ActiveTimeLevelsVI).


The overhead should be negligible.

I would output the full variable name (including the group name) in  
the error message.

Yes, please apply.

-erik

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