[mvapich-discuss] Bad variable names in OSU benchmarks
Sayantan Sur
surs at cse.ohio-state.edu
Mon Oct 30 14:25:17 EST 2006
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your note. We will remove these unused variables.
Sayantan.
* On Oct,1 Jeff Squyres<jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote :
> Greetings.
>
> I notice that three of the OSU benchmarks have global variables named
> "stat" in them. This is not a good idea because there is a system
> call named stat (see stat(2)). Having a global variable with the
> same name as a system call can lead to unexpected and disastrous
> results.
>
> Additionally, these poorly-named global variables are not used. So
> it's probably safest just to remove them. A patch is attached.
>
> --
> Jeff Squyres
> Server Virtualization Business Unit
> Cisco Systems
>
>
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