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dnl dnl Author: Michael L. Hall dnl P.O. Box 1663, MS-D409, LANL dnl Los Alamos, NM 87545 dnl ph: 505-665-4312 dnl email: hall@lanl.gov dnl dnl Created on: 02/19/98 dnl Date: 09/18/00, 20:45:35 dnl Version: 6.0 dnl Initialize the DEBUG_LEVEL and WARNING_LEVEL to zero if they dnl are not already defined. ifdef([DEBUG_LEVEL], [ ],[ define([DEBUG_LEVEL], 0) ]) ifdef([WARNING_LEVEL], [ ],[ define([WARNING_LEVEL], 0) ]) dnl Set the default communication style. define([VERIFY_COMMUNICATION],[Global]) dnl Define the VERIFY macro. define([VERIFY], [ ifelse(m4_eval(DEBUG_LEVEL >= $2), 1, [ define([HIDE], []) ],m4_eval(DEBUG_LEVEL == -1), 1, [ define([HIDE], [[!]]) ],[ define([HIDE], [[!]]) ]) define([COMMAND_TEXT],m4_changequote(["],["])$1[]m4_changequote("[","]")) ifelse(VERIFY_COMMUNICATION, Global, [ HIDE if (.not. Global_ALL($1)) then HIDE if (this_is_IO_PE) then HIDE write (6,*) "Verification failed: ", & HIDE "COMMAND_TEXT, ", & HIDE "file __file__, ", & HIDE "line __line__." HIDE end if HIDE call Abort HIDE end if ],[ HIDE if (.not. ($1)) then HIDE write (6,*) "Verification failed: ", & HIDE "COMMAND_TEXT, ", & HIDE "file __file__, ", & HIDE "line __line__." HIDE stop HIDE end if ]) undefine([COMMAND_TEXT]) undefine([HIDE]) ]) dnl Define the WARN_IF macro. define([WARN_IF], [ ifelse(m4_eval(WARNING_LEVEL >= $2), 1, [ define([HIDE], []) ],m4_eval(WARNING_LEVEL == -1), 1, [ define([HIDE], [[!]]) ],[ define([HIDE], [[!]]) ]) define([COMMAND_TEXT],m4_changequote(["],["])$1[]m4_changequote("[","]")) ifelse(VERIFY_COMMUNICATION, Global, [ HIDE if (Global_ANY($1)) then HIDE if (this_is_IO_PE) then HIDE write (6,*) "Warning - test failed: ", & HIDE "COMMAND_TEXT, ", & HIDE "file __file__, ", & HIDE "line __line__." HIDE end if HIDE end if ],[ HIDE if ($1) then HIDE write (6,*) "Warning - test failed: ", & HIDE "COMMAND_TEXT, ", & HIDE "file __file__, ", & HIDE "line __line__." HIDE end if ]) undefine([COMMAND_TEXT]) undefine([HIDE]) ])