[ibis-macro] Re: Error reporting in IBIS-AMI
- From: Gregory R Edlund <gedlund@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ibis-macro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:38:31 -0500
For the record, I'm a big fan of error messages that are longer than 50
characters. One or two English sentences would be nice.
Greg Edlund
Senior Engineer
Signal Integrity and System Timing
IBM Systems & Technology Group
3605 Hwy. 52 N Bldg 050-3
Rochester, MN 55901
From: Mike Steinberger <msteinb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 03/27/2012 04:24 PM
Subject: [ibis-macro] Re: Error reporting in IBIS-AMI
Sent by: ibis-macro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Michael-
We were originally thinking that the msg pointer would be used for a
purpose such as this. Of course, we didn't specify what the content of msg
might be, so there's no specific capability in place right now.
Nonetheless, if we wanted to have standard error messages, that would be
the place to put them.
Mike Steinberger
On 03/27/2012 03:10 PM, Mirmak, Michael wrote:
A colleague asked the following question, which he asked to be sent
to this list for discussion. Apologies if this has already been
discussed.
If an IBIS-AMI model returns an (assigned) error (e.g. -4), what does
it mean to the EDA tool?
Having standardized error handling categories described in the
specification, to defines the return states, would be useful. This
would also give the tool user some way of debugging easy errors
without requiring contacting the original model authors.
e.g., the specification might suggest the following assignments which
would be implemented in the EDA tool:
…
#define CANNOT_LOAD_LIBRARY -1
#define CANNOT_FIND_FUNCTION -2
#define CANNOT_LOAD_AMI_FILE -3
#define CANNOT_PARSE_AMI_FILE -4
#define ..
…
#define UNKNOWN -99
The EDA tool could then either perform some intelligent checks (for
example, wider searches for the file) or the user could double-check
that the files are in the right location, the right OS/architecture
is being used for simulation, etc.
- MM
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