[cam-users] GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string

Tue Oct 5 15:52:08 MDT 2004

I have also run into the same problems with the Intel compiler but haven't
retried since release l_fc_pc_8.0.046_pe050.1 in late July. Below is a
link to the Intel User Forum where I submitted a message regarding this
issue. I reported the issue to Intel Premier Support who have responded
but not necessarily fixed the problem. 

There seems to be some sort of memory allocation issue which is dependent
on the variable naming. Quite strange, but not uncommon if you read the
user forum.

http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=11&message.id=1767

Michael

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University of Arizona
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> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:09:45 +0700
> From: "Pavel Mankevich" <mpv at ngs.ru>
> Subject: [cam-users] GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string
> To: cam-users at ucar.edu
> Message-ID: <web-359358 at mx1.intranet.ru>
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> Dear All,
> I have some problem with running CAM3 on Itanium. First of 
> all I compiled CAM3 using gcc and ifort compilers. I also 
> used default settings whenever it was possible. Datasets 
> were installed. But when starting CAM I get the following 
> messages:
> ...
> ...
>    284 LHFLXOI  W/m2
>    285 SHFLXOI  W/m2
>    286 NSTEP    timestep
> 
>   GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string.  Missing 
> underscore character (x
>   xxE_yyyS)
>   
>              0
>   ENDRUN: called without a message string
> abort:
> 
> I looked at the source code and found that the reason was 
> in the history.F90 file. It has a subroutine 
> getlatind(..., inname). The argument 'inname' should have 
> an underscore character but in my particular case it is an 
> empty string at all. So could anyone help me understand 
> why it happens? Maybe I set environment incorrectly or 
> something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavel
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:56:01 -0600
> From: Norm Wood <nbwood at lamar.colostate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [cam-users] GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string
> To: cam-users at ucar.edu
> Message-ID: <20041005145601.GA15365 at wombat.atmos.colostate.edu>
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> 
> Pavel,
> 
> On 05 Oct., Pavel Mankevich wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> >  GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string.  Missing 
> > underscore character (x
> >  xxE_yyyS)
> >  
> >             0
> >  ENDRUN: called without a message string
> > abort:
> > 
> > I looked at the source code and found that the reason was 
> > in the history.F90 file. It has a subroutine 
> > getlatind(..., inname). The argument 'inname' should have 
> > an underscore character but in my particular case it is an 
> > empty string at all. So could anyone help me understand 
> > why it happens? Maybe I set environment incorrectly or 
> > something?
> 
> I've run into the same situation using the ifort compiler
> with CAM3 and have not been able to resolve the problem (I
> ended up switching back to the pgf90 compiler before digging
> into it too far).
> 
> CAM3 introduced some new namelist parameters (fincl1lonlat,
> fincl2lonlat, etc.) for specifying the lat/lon regions for
> which model variables should be written to the history files.
> 
> The values for these fincl*lonlat namelist parameters are stored
> in an array fincllonlat in the history module.  At around
> line 1716 of that module, the code tests each string in fincllonlat
> to see if it is empty:
> 
> do while (fincllonlat(ff,t) /= ' ')
>    lonlatname(ff) = trim(fincllonlat(ff,t))
>    call getlatind(lonlatname(ff),latind(ff,1),latind(ff,2),latname(ff))
>    call getlonind(lonlatname(ff),lonind(ff,1),lonind(ff,2),lonname(ff))
> ...
> 
> For some reason ifort thinks these strings are not empty,
> even if the input namelist left these fincl*lonlat parameters
> undefined.  The result is that getlatind() and getlonind()
> are called when they shouldn't have been.
> 
> What is odd is that the code contains other, similar tests on
> namelist parameters fincl, fexcl, fhstpr and fwrtpr in the
> fldlst() subroutine, and no problems occur if these are empty
> strings.
> 
> I'm not sure if this problem might be dependent on the ifort version.
> I think I've tried only with version 8.0 under Redhat and Slackware
> linux.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Norm
> 
> --
> Norm Wood
> 
>      Department of Atmospheric Science
>      Colorado State University
>      norm at atmos.colostate.edu
>      phone:  970-491-8480
> 
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> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:57:24 -0600
> From: Jim McCaa <jmccaa at ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: [cam-users] GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string
> To: cam-users at ucar.edu
> Message-ID: <200410051157.24163.jmccaa at ucar.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> 
> Thanks for your response to this, Norm.  Your description is consistent with 
> our experience here.  
> 
> We have been able to get CAM to run with the ifort compiler on NCAR/CGD 
> machines, but only with patched versions of both CAM3.0 and the ifort 
> compiler.  The modifications to CAM 3.0 are included in our recent patched 
> release ( CAM-3.0.p1 ) available from the main CAM web page.  If you're going 
> to pursue this further, I'd recommend using that version of the model.  
> Our license for the beta intel compiler has expired, and we've had no success 
> with the released compilers (up through 8.1), so we're not currently pursuing 
> this.
> 
> Jim McCaa
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 8:56 am, Norm Wood wrote:
> > Pavel,
> >
> > On 05 Oct., Pavel Mankevich wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > >  GETLATIND: Improperly formatted column string.  Missing
> > > underscore character (x
> > >  xxE_yyyS)
> > >
> > >             0
> > >  ENDRUN: called without a message string
> > > abort:
> > >
> > > I looked at the source code and found that the reason was
> > > in the history.F90 file. It has a subroutine
> > > getlatind(..., inname). The argument 'inname' should have
> > > an underscore character but in my particular case it is an
> > > empty string at all. So could anyone help me understand
> > > why it happens? Maybe I set environment incorrectly or
> > > something?
> >
> > I've run into the same situation using the ifort compiler
> > with CAM3 and have not been able to resolve the problem (I
> > ended up switching back to the pgf90 compiler before digging
> > into it too far).
> >
> > CAM3 introduced some new namelist parameters (fincl1lonlat,
> > fincl2lonlat, etc.) for specifying the lat/lon regions for
> > which model variables should be written to the history files.
> >
> > The values for these fincl*lonlat namelist parameters are stored
> > in an array fincllonlat in the history module.  At around
> > line 1716 of that module, the code tests each string in fincllonlat
> > to see if it is empty:
> >
> > do while (fincllonlat(ff,t) /= ' ')
> >    lonlatname(ff) = trim(fincllonlat(ff,t))
> >    call getlatind(lonlatname(ff),latind(ff,1),latind(ff,2),latname(ff))
> >    call getlonind(lonlatname(ff),lonind(ff,1),lonind(ff,2),lonname(ff))
> > ...
> >
> > For some reason ifort thinks these strings are not empty,
> > even if the input namelist left these fincl*lonlat parameters
> > undefined.  The result is that getlatind() and getlonind()
> > are called when they shouldn't have been.
> >
> > What is odd is that the code contains other, similar tests on
> > namelist parameters fincl, fexcl, fhstpr and fwrtpr in the
> > fldlst() subroutine, and no problems occur if these are empty
> > strings.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this problem might be dependent on the ifort version.
> > I think I've tried only with version 8.0 under Redhat and Slackware
> > linux.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Norm
> >
> > --
> > Norm Wood
> >
> >      Department of Atmospheric Science
> >      Colorado State University
> >      norm at atmos.colostate.edu
> >      phone:  970-491-8480
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