[ibis-macro] Re: Error reporting in IBIS-AMI
- From: Mike Steinberger <msteinb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ibis-macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:13:43 -0500
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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