Re: NEC SX-4 64 bit IEEE Netcdf

Harvey,

>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:27:02 +1100 (EST) 
>From: Harvey DAVIES <address@hidden>
>Organization: CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: NEC SX-4 64 bit IEEE Netcdf 
>Keywords: 199711262243.PAA12321

In the above message, you wrote:

> Here is new configure.log using source from your harvey.tar.Z:
> 
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for m4... m4
> checking user-defined C compiler "cc -Xa"
> checking C compiler... works
> checking how to make dependencies... false
> configure: warning: Empty CXX variable
> configure: warning: The C++ interface will not be built
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -Xa -E
> checking user-defined Fortran compiler "f90"... works
> checking for Fortran .F compiler... 
> checking if Fortran compiler handles *.F files... yes
> checking for C-equivalent to Fortran routine "SUB"... sub_
> checking for Fortran "byte"... no
> checking for Fortran "integer*1"... no
> checking for Fortran "integer(kind(1))"... yes
> checking for Fortran "integer*2"... yes
> checking if Fortran "integer(kind(1))" is C "signed char"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer(kind(1))" is C "short"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer(kind(1))" is C "int"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer(kind(1))" is C "long"... yes
> checking if Fortran "integer*2" is C "short"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer*2" is C "int"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer*2" is C "long"... yes
> checking if Fortran "integer" is C "int"... no
> checking if Fortran "integer" is C "long"... yes
> checking if Fortran "real" is C "float"... no
> checking if Fortran "real" is C "double"... yes
> checking if Fortran "doubleprecision" is C "double"... yes
> checking for Fortran-equivalent to netCDF "byte"... integer
> checking for Fortran-equivalent to netCDF "short"... integer*2
> checking for math library
> checking for -lc... no
> checking for -lm... yes
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for ranlib... :
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for ftruncate... yes
> checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes
> checking whether cross-compiling... no
> checking for IEEE floating point format... yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking for off_t... yes
> checking for ssize_t... yes
> checking for ptrdiff_t... yes
> checking for uchar... no
> checking whether char is unsigned... yes
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
> checking size of short... 2
> checking size of int... 4
> checking size of long... 8
> checking size of float... 4
> checking size of double... 8
> checking size of off_t... 8
> checking size of size_t... 4
> checking for catman... catman
> checking for manual-page index command... catman -w -M $(MANDIR)
> checking binary distribution directory... /home/ftp/pub/binary/dummy_system
> cmp: EOF on ./config.cache
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating macros.make
> udcreating fortran/nfconfig.inc
> creating libsrc/ncconfig.h

Looks OK.

> 
> Here is new config.log using source from your harvey.tar.Z:
> 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> configure:1017: cc -Xa -c -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:1217: cc -Xa -E -DNDEBUG conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:1316: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> configure:1415: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew conftest.F  
> /stmp/cshld.22412/ow28109_ppdir/i.conftest.F:
> 
> f90: warn(82): i.conftest.F, line 4: Name "r" is not used.
> f90: i.conftest.F, _MAIN: There is 1 warning.
> configure:1456: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> configure:1491: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: error(109): conftest.f, line 2: Unrecognizable statement.
> f90: warn(83): conftest.f, line 3: Dummy argument "value" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, sub: There are 1 error and 1 warning.
> f90 fatal : /usr/lib/f90com command error : 1
> configure:1491: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: error(430): conftest.f, line 2: Byte length specifier "1" is illegal.
> f90: warn(83): conftest.f, line 3: Dummy argument "value" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, sub: There are 1 error and 1 warning.
> f90 fatal : /usr/lib/f90com command error : 1
> configure:1491: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: warn(83): conftest.f, line 3: Dummy argument "value" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, sub: There is 1 warning.
> configure:1514: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: warn(84): conftest.f, line 2: Length specification for INTEGER*2 or 
>                                    LOGICAL*1 is ignored.
> f90: warn(83): conftest.f, line 3: Dummy argument "value" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, sub: There are 2 warnings.
> configure:1548: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1550: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1552: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1554: ./conftest
> configure:1595: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1597: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1599: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1601: ./conftest
> configure:1642: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1644: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1646: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1648: ./conftest
> configure:1689: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1691: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1693: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1695: ./conftest
> configure:1740: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1742: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> 
> f90: warn(84): conftestf.f, line 1: Length specification for INTEGER*2 or 
>                                     LOGICAL*1 is ignored.
> f90: conftestf.f, _MAIN: There is 1 warning.
> configure:1744: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1746: ./conftest
> configure:1787: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1789: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> 
> f90: warn(84): conftestf.f, line 1: Length specification for INTEGER*2 or 
>                                     LOGICAL*1 is ignored.
> f90: conftestf.f, _MAIN: There is 1 warning.
> configure:1791: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1793: ./conftest
> configure:1834: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1836: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> 
> f90: warn(84): conftestf.f, line 1: Length specification for INTEGER*2 or 
>                                     LOGICAL*1 is ignored.
> f90: conftestf.f, _MAIN: There is 1 warning.
> configure:1838: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1840: ./conftest
> configure:1883: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1885: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1887: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1889: ./conftest
> configure:1883: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1885: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1887: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1889: ./conftest
> configure:1930: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1932: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1934: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1936: ./conftest
> configure:1930: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1932: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1934: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1936: ./conftest
> configure:1977: cc -Xa -c -DNDEBUG -hfloat0 conftest.c
> configure:1979: f90 -float0 -ew -c conftestf.f
> conftestf.f:
> configure:1981: f90 -o conftest -float0 -ew  conftestf.o conftest.o 
> configure:1983: ./conftest
> configure:2016: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: error(109): conftest.f, line 1: Unrecognizable statement.
> f90: conftest.f, _MAIN: There is 1 error.
> f90 fatal : /usr/lib/f90com command error : 1
> configure:2016: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: error(430): conftest.f, line 1: Byte length specifier "1" is illegal.
> f90: warn(82): conftest.f, line 2: Name "foo" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, _MAIN: There are 1 error and 1 warning.
> f90 fatal : /usr/lib/f90com command error : 1
> configure:2016: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: warn(82): conftest.f, line 2: Name "foo" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, _MAIN: There is 1 warning.
> configure:2037: f90 -c -float0 -ew conftest.f
> conftest.f:
> 
> f90: warn(84): conftest.f, line 1: Length specification for INTEGER*2 or 
>                                    LOGICAL*1 is ignored.
> f90: warn(82): conftest.f, line 2: Name "foo" is not used.
> f90: conftest.f, _MAIN: There are 2 warnings.
> configure:2077: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c -lc   1>&5
> undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> tanh                                conftest.o
> ld fatal: symbol referencing errors. no output written to file conftest.
> configure:2111: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c -lm   1>&5
> configure:2206: cc -Xa -E -DNDEBUG conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:2240: cc -Xa -E -DNDEBUG conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:2290: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2338: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2372: cc -Xa -c -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:2404: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2456: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2485: cc -Xa -E -DNDEBUG conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:2550: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> "conftest.c", line 2544: vec inf: Unvectorized loop
> configure:2768: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2806: cc -Xa -c -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG conftest.c 1>&5
> "configure", line 2801: undefined variable: bogus
> "configure", line 2801: Syntax error before or at: endian
> configure:2852: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2890: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2924: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2958: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:2992: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:3026: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:3064: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:3102: cc -Xa -o conftest -hfloat0 -DNDEBUG  conftest.c  1>&5

I don't see any show stoppers.

> Per says system has no specific argument for this purpose [making the
> C compiler generate 8-byte "int"s].  In barbaric
> desperation I tried:
> CFLAGS='-hfloat0 -Dint=long' \
> However (as one example) /usr/include/stdio.h
> contains line
>         short    int    _smode; /* stream mode */
> which made this fail.  
> 
> Per suggested using
>     typedef long int;
> Can you suggest a way of specifying this typedef?

In general, I'd expect such methods to fail if for no other reason than
calls to the system runtime wouldn't know about 8-byte "int"s.

This is going to take some work.  I'll see what I can do.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>