[gmx-developers] adding input records

[David]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:58 -0400, Jason de Joannis wrote:
> Dear Developers,
> 
> How can I expand the parm->ir structure?
> I have a lot of new parameters that I want to introduce into
> my mdp-file, so parm->ir.userint1... are not enough.

How many did you think of?

> 
> When I modify inputrec.h, tpxio.c and txtdump.c in a straightforward
> way (e.g. adding userint5), I get a lot of warnings during compile.
> "comparison between signed and unsigned". When I try to run the new
> program I get

You will also have to add kernel/readir.c, and there may be more

Then you'll have to make stuff conditional in tpxio.c, and increase the
tpx version


> 
> Fatal error: calloc for ir->opts.eg_excl (nelem=-1986540631, elsize=4, file
> tpxio.c, line 457): Cannot allocate memory
> 
> How can I fix this without getting my hands dirty?
Now you're asking too much, but it seems your hands are slightly greasy
already...

If you are implementing something that you think would be useful for
others as well, then please do it in the CVS version, that will make it
easier to add your stuff to a future version of gmx.

> 
> /Jason
> 
-- 
David.
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