[pooma-dev] Re: [PATCH] Back to using Cheetah::CHEETAH for serialization

[Jeffrey D. Oldham]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Jeffrey D. Oldham wrote:
> 
> 
>>Richard Guenther wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>This patch is a partial reversion of a previous patch that made us use
>>>Cheetah::DELEGATE serialization for RemoteProxy.  It also brings us a
>>>Cheetah::CHEETAH serialization for std::string, which was previously
>>>missing.  One step more for the MPI merge.
>>>
>>>Tested together with all other MPI changes with serial, Cheetah and MPI.
>>>
>>>Ok?
>>
>>Yes.  Do we need more regression tests for this work to better ensure
>>correctness?
> 
> 
> Maybe, at least we get all non-POD types that are not explicitly
> specialized wrong during serialization.  And I can tell you, such errors
> are _very_ hard to find (happened for me for std::string and RemoteProxy).
> 
> Richard.

Yes, we're running the regression tests in serial, not parallel, only so 
testing may be hard.

-- 
Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham at codesourcery.com