Re: [Starpu-devel] [LU factorisation: gdb debug output]

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>]

Hello,

Maxim Abalenkov, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 12:16:54 +0000, wrote:
> 4) If I may, I would like to make a general comment, please. I like StarPU 
> very much. I think you have invested a great deal of time and effort into 
> it. Thank you. But to my mind the weakest point (from my user experience) 
> is passing the values to StarPU, while inserting a task. There is no type 
> checking of the variables here. The same applies to the routine 
> “starpu_codelet_unpack_args()”, when you want to obtain the values “on the 
> other side”. Sometimes, it becomes a nightmare and a trial-and-error 
> exercise. If the type checks could be enforced there, it would make a 
> user’s life much easier.

Well, C can't check types at runtime. We could however have a _check
version of starpu_codelet_unpack_args which would be called like
starpu_codelet_pack_args, i.e. one would have to pass the size, and
terminate the list with 0. That way we can at least check the size and
number of parameters.

Samuel