skill to detect ADEXL options

Hi Riad,

It's not documented. I was suggesting it because it's better than accessing the internal data structures; better still,  use the asiGetHighPerformanceOptionVal function which is public and documented (certainly in IC615, but it's available in IC614 ISR10 too). In general there should be a public specific function to get the right "OptionVal" - asiEnvGetVal was just the fallback because that was missing in this case, until the public function got added in IC614 ISR7.

Good to hear from you! Hope things are going OK now you're in the US.

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your prompt reply ! Doing pretty good in the US, thanks :-)

Riad.

 I pretty much got the routine working but I need to add a safeguard.  Im creating the file at the end of the routine with this:

 myPort = outfile( "runSimulation" )
 fprintf(myPort "%s %s %s\n" tool  multiThread  paraReduction_opt )
 close(myPort)

 I need to add some code at the beginning to see if the file exists and delete if it does.  What is the syntax to do this?

Thanks

 Hi Rick,

You can give an additional argument to the outfile function which is the mode, though the default mode is "w" for write or over-write which is what you would want I think, so I'm not quite sure why you need this (or why you think you might need it).  However, to answer your question more directly, you may do something like the following:

when(isFile("runSimulation")

  deleteFile("runSimulation")

); when

Hopefully this will answer your question.

Cheers,

Lawrence.

Hi Lawrence - I wanted to add this just in case that there is hole in the logic where a condition is not met and the variables are not updated which could cause the wrong file contents to be generated.   I would rather have an empty file than a wrong one.   This is exactly what I need

Thanks!!

Rick

Hi Rick,

Ok, that makes sense - though in this case it would be "no file" wouldn't it ?  You could test the variables prior to deciding to open/update the file, to avoid writing something like "nil nil nil" out to the file, forall would be good for this:

when(forall(var list(tool multiThread paraReduction_opt) var)

  myPort = outfile( "runSimulation" )

  fprintf(myPort "%s %s %s\n" tool  multiThread  paraReduction_opt )

  close(myPort)

); when the variables are all non-nil

 Hope this helps,

Lawrence.

Hi Lawrence - your working very late!....but I do appreciate it!!!

So I would delete the file at the beginning and then this code would only allow a write if the variables are non-nil.....is that right?   BTW, paraReduction_opt  will be either   nil or t  . Does that change the code?  Perhaps using %L instead of %s  ?

 Thanks

Rick

 Hi Rik,

Yes, that's right, the first code snippet ("when(isFile...") would delete the file if it exists, and then the recent "when(forall"  statement would only ouput the variables if there are non-nil (assuming this is what you want, you can change the condition to whatever you need).   Yes also to changing the %s to %L for the paraReduction_opt, if this variable is of 'boolean' data type would avoid an error from fprintf about the format specifier.

Cheers, and good night!

Lawrence.

HI Lawrence - Just wanted to thank you for making the suggestion about adding the extra file logic.   I found a condition where it would create a file with no contents which is caused an error.  

Thanks again!!!!

 Rick