[Developers] remove dependency of NaNChecker from MoL
Thomas Radke
tradke at aei.mpg.de
Mon Dec 3 11:38:30 CST 2007
Erik Schnetter wrote:
> Many people use MoL without the NaNChecker; if MoL requires the
> function, NaNChecker always needs to be present, even if it is not
> used. That is inconvenient. I would keep it as "uses" and add a run-
> time check depending on MoL's parameter settings.
If I remember right a thorn needs to be activated in order to provide
aliased functions. Yes, then this would be inconvenient.
>> There is no convention about names for aliased functions but I suggest
>> to prefix them with the name of the providing thorn/implementation.
>
>
> That would require renaming the existing function, which we shouldn't
> do. Do you have a suggestion for a good name?
Not really, and I don't know how many thorns would need to be changed to
use renamed functions. So maybe we should just stick with
CheckVarsForNaN() and SetVarsToNaN().
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Cheers, Thomas.
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