aren't separated out into individual commits; they represent a few
months of work in the Mercurial branch, and it seemed error-prone to
try to break them up into multiple SVN commits.
* Remove 2nd overloaded interfaces for MPI_TESTALL, MPI_TESTSOME,
MPI_WAITALL, and MPI_WAITSOME in the "mpi" module implementations
(because we're not allowed to have them, anyway -- it causes
complications in the profiling interface). This forced an MPI-2.2
errata in the MPI Forum; we applied the errata here (the array of
statuses parameter could not have a specific dimension specified in
the dummy argument). Fixes trac:3166.
* Similarly, fix type for MPI_ARGVS_NULL in Fortran
* Add MPI_3.0 function MPI_F_SYNC_REG (Fortran interfaces only).
* Add MPI-3.0 MPI_MESSAGE_NO_PROC in the mpi_f08 module.
* Added mpi_f08 handle comparison operators, per MPI-3.0 addendum to
the F08 proposal at the last Forum meeting.
* Added missing type(MPI_File) and type(Message) in mpi_f08 module.
* Fix --disable-mpi-io configure switch with all Fortran interfaces
* Re-factor the Fortran header files to be fundamentally simpler and
easier to maintain. Fortran constant values in the header files
are now generated by a script named mpif-values.pl during
autogen.pl (they were previously generated by mpif-common.pl, but
it was quite a bit more subtle/complex). A second commit will
follow this one to update svn:ignore values (just to ensure we
don't muck up the first commit with the SVN client getting confused
by the changed ignore values and new/changed files).
* Fix some dependencies for compile ordering in
ompi/mpi/fortran/use-mpi-ignore-tkr/Makefile.am.
* Fix bad wording in several places (.m4 file name, ompi_info output,
etc.): we previoulsy said "F08 assumed shape" when we really meant
"F08 assumed rank" (for Fortran gurus, those are very different
things).
* Removed the GREEK/SVN version string from mpif.h. It really had no
purpose being there.
Still to be done:
* Handling of 2D array of strings in MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE still
isn't right yet. Not sure how many people really care about this
:-), but it is still broken.
This commit was SVN r26997.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 3166 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3166
* Ensure the profiling version is linked in
* Ensure that PMPI variants are prototyped in mpi.h
* Ensure weak symbols are set correctly
This commit was SVN r26649.
* Add in a bunch of missinc MPI_Op pre-defined constants
* Fix a few parameter types
* Ensure that MPI_Op handles have the same values in all interfaces
(i.e., add them to the mpif-common.pl generator script)
This commit was SVN r26511.
* Remove unused #defines in mpi.h.in
* Add OMPI_PARAM_CHECK in mpi.h.in (so that we can check for it in tests)
* Clean up some comments in mpif-common.h
This commit was SVN r26347.
1. New mpifort wrapper compiler: you can utilize mpif.h, use mpi, and use mpi_f08 through this one wrapper compiler
1. mpif77 and mpif90 still exist, but are sym links to mpifort and may be removed in a future release
1. The mpi module has been re-implemented and is significantly "mo' bettah"
1. The mpi_f08 module offers many, many improvements over mpif.h and the mpi module
This stuff is coming from a VERY long-lived mercurial branch (3 years!); it'll almost certainly take a few SVN commits and a bunch of testing before I get it correctly committed to the SVN trunk.
== More details ==
Craig Rasmussen and I have been working with the MPI-3 Fortran WG and Fortran J3 committees for a long, long time to make a prototype MPI-3 Fortran bindings implementation. We think we're at a stable enough state to bring this stuff back to the trunk, with the goal of including it in OMPI v1.7.
Special thanks go out to everyone who has been incredibly patient and helpful to us in this journey:
* Rolf Rabenseifner/HLRS (mastermind/genius behind the entire MPI-3 Fortran effort)
* The Fortran J3 committee
* Tobias Burnus/gfortran
* Tony !Goetz/Absoft
* Terry !Donte/Oracle
* ...and probably others whom I'm forgetting :-(
There's still opportunities for optimization in the mpi_f08 implementation, but by and large, it is as far along as it can be until Fortran compilers start implementing the new F08 dimension(..) syntax.
Note that gfortran is currently unsupported for the mpi_f08 module and the new mpi module. gfortran users will a) fall back to the same mpi module implementation that is in OMPI v1.5.x, and b) not get the new mpi_f08 module. The gfortran maintainers are actively working hard to add the necessary features to support both the new mpi_f08 module and the new mpi module implementations. This will take some time.
As mentioned above, ompi/mpi/f77 and ompi/mpi/f90 no longer exist. All the fortran bindings implementations have been collated under ompi/mpi/fortran; each implementation has its own subdirectory:
{{{
ompi/mpi/fortran/
base/ - glue code
mpif-h/ - what used to be ompi/mpi/f77
use-mpi-tkr/ - what used to be ompi/mpi/f90
use-mpi-ignore-tkr/ - new mpi module implementation
use-mpi-f08/ - new mpi_f08 module implementation
}}}
There's also a prototype 6-function-MPI implementation under use-mpi-f08-desc that emulates the new F08 dimension(..) syntax that isn't fully available in Fortran compilers yet. We did that to prove it to ourselves that it could be done once the compilers fully support it. This directory/implementation will likely eventually replace the use-mpi-f08 version.
Other things that were done:
* ompi_info grew a few new output fields to describe what level of Fortran support is included
* Existing Fortran examples in examples/ were renamed; new mpi_f08 examples were added
* The old Fortran MPI libraries were renamed:
* libmpi_f77 -> libmpi_mpifh
* libmpi_f90 -> libmpi_usempi
* The configury for Fortran was consolidated and significantly slimmed down. Note that the F77 env variable is now IGNORED for configure; you should only use FC. Example:
{{{
shell$ ./configure CC=icc CXX=icpc FC=ifort ...
}}}
All of this work was done in a Mercurial branch off the SVN trunk, and hosted at Bitbucket. This branch has got to be one of OMPI's longest-running branches. Its first commit was Tue Apr 07 23:01:46 2009 -0400 -- it's over 3 years old! :-) We think we've pulled in all relevant changes from the OMPI trunk (e.g., Fortran implementations of the new MPI-3 MPROBE stuff for mpif.h, use mpi, and use mpi_f08, and the recent Fujitsu Fortran patches).
I anticipate some instability when we bring this stuff into the trunk, simply because it touches a LOT of code in the MPI layer in the OMPI code base. We'll try our best to make it as pain-free as possible, but please bear with us when it is committed.
This commit was SVN r26283.
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/ProcessPlacement
The wiki page is incomplete at the moment, but I hope to complete it over the next few days. I will provide updates on the devel list. As the wiki page states, the default and most commonly used options remain unchanged (except as noted below). New, esoteric and complex options have been added, but unless you are a true masochist, you are unlikely to use many of them beyond perhaps an initial curiosity-motivated experimentation.
In a nutshell, this commit revamps the map/rank/bind procedure to take into account topology info on the compute nodes. I have, for the most part, preserved the default behaviors, with three notable exceptions:
1. I have at long last bowed my head in submission to the system admin's of managed clusters. For years, they have complained about our default of allowing users to oversubscribe nodes - i.e., to run more processes on a node than allocated slots. Accordingly, I have modified the default behavior: if you are running off of hostfile/dash-host allocated nodes, then the default is to allow oversubscription. If you are running off of RM-allocated nodes, then the default is to NOT allow oversubscription. Flags to override these behaviors are provided, so this only affects the default behavior.
2. both cpus/rank and stride have been removed. The latter was demanded by those who didn't understand the purpose behind it - and I agreed as the users who requested it are no longer using it. The former was removed temporarily pending implementation.
3. vm launch is now the sole method for starting OMPI. It was just too darned hard to maintain multiple launch procedures - maybe someday, provided someone can demonstrate a reason to do so.
As Jeff stated, it is impossible to fully test a change of this size. I have tested it on Linux and Mac, covering all the default and simple options, singletons, and comm_spawn. That said, I'm sure others will find problems, so I'll be watching MTT results until this stabilizes.
This commit was SVN r25476.
OMPI supports multiple different repository systems (SVN, hg, git).
But the VERSION file has listed "want_svn" and "svn_r" as fields, even
though the actual repo system and version may not be SVN.
So search/replace those fields (and derrivative values that come from
those fields) with "want_repo_rev" and "repo_rev", respectively.
This commit was SVN r24405.
either direct link to these basic predefined types, or a combination of them.
Anyway, the first items in the datatype list belong to OPAL, the second round
are MPI datatypes created by composing basic OPAL datatypes, and the last
batch are mapped datatype (direct correspondance between an OMPI datatype and
an OPAL one such as int -> int32_t).
Modify the op to fit this new scheme.
This commit was SVN r24247.
1. create DLL A, export symbols of A, import nothing (A normally is OPAL)
should define _USRDLL , A_EXPORT
2. create DLL B, export symbols of B, import A.lib (B could be ORTE, OMPI or other ompi tools)
should define _USRDLL, B_EXPORT
3. create DLL C, import B.dll (C could be external libs or apps)
should define B_IMPORT
This commit was SVN r24016.
This merges the branch containing the revamped build system based around converting autogen from a bash script to a Perl program. Jeff has provided emails explaining the features contained in the change.
Please note that configure requirements on components HAVE CHANGED. For example. a configure.params file is no longer required in each component directory. See Jeff's emails for an explanation.
This commit was SVN r23764.
This commit:
* Adds the configury to figure out how many Fortran INTEGERs are
necessary to represent the C MPI_Status (which now includes a size_t
member).
* Sets MPI_STATUS_SIZE to this value in mpif-config.h.in.
* Adds a big comment in status_c2f.c explaining why the no changes
were necessary to how we copy statuses between Fortran and C.
This commit was SVN r23472.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r23467 --> open-mpi/ompi@733d25a8a3
r23468 --> open-mpi/ompi@963fcb13a5
r23470 --> open-mpi/ompi@418b989781
r23471 --> open-mpi/ompi@bc74a446ac
step is the configure and Fortran mojo that Jeff will put in. Until then I
guess the Fortran interface is broken (at least all functions using the hidden
count firld in the MPI_Status).
This commit was SVN r23467.
from "MPI_*_errhandler_fn" to "MPI_*_errhandler_function" (and their
corresponding C++ types, too). Also updated the corresponding man
pages, and marked the typedefs to the now-deprecated types as
deprecated.
This commit was SVN r22122.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 2060 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2060
#if defined (c_plusplus)
defined (__cplusplus)
followed by
extern "C" {
and the closing counterpart by BEGIN_C_DECLS and END_C_DECLS.
Notable exceptions are:
- opal/include/opal_config_bottom.h:
This is our generated code, that itself defines BEGIN_C_DECL and
END_C_DECL
- ompi/mpi/cxx/mpicxx.h:
Here we do not include opal_config_bottom.h:
- Belongs to external code:
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.c
opal/mca/backtrace/darwin/MoreBacktrace/MoreDebugging/MoreBacktrace.h
- opal/include/opal/prefetch.h:
Has C++ specific macros that are protected:
- Had #if ... } #endif _and_ END_C_DECLS (aka end up with 2x
END_C_DECLS)
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib.h
- opal/event/event.h has #ifdef __cplusplus as BEGIN_C_DECLS...
- opal/win32/ompi_process.h: had extern "C"\n {...
opal/win32/ompi_process.h: dito
- ompi/mca/btl/pcie/btl_pcie_lex.l: needed to add *_C_DECLS
ompi/mpi/f90/test/align_c.c: dito
- ompi/debuggers/msgq_interface.h: used #ifdef __cplusplus
- ompi/mpi/f90/xml/common-C.xsl: Amend
Tested on linux using --with-openib and --with-mx
The following do not contain either opal_config.h, orte_config.h or
ompi_config.h
(but possibly other header files, that include one of the above):
ompi/mca/bml/r2/bml_r2_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/gm/btl_gm_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/mx/btl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/ofud/btl_ofud_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/openib/btl_openib_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/portals/btl_portals_frag.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/sctp/btl_sctp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_ft.h
ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/template/btl_template_proc.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_eager_rdma.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_mca.h
ompi/mca/btl/udapl/btl_udapl_proc.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/mx/mtl_mx.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/mtl/psm/mtl_psm.h
ompi/mca/pml/cm/pml_cm_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/csum/pml_csum_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/dr/pml_dr_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/example/pml_example.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_comm.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_component.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_endpoint.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_rdmafrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/ob1/pml_ob1_recvfrag.h
ompi/mca/pml/v/pml_v_output.h
opal/include/opal/prefetch.h
opal/mca/timer/aix/timer_aix.h
opal/util/qsort.h
test/support/components.h
This commit was SVN r21855.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r2 --> open-mpi/ompi@58fdc18855
not end up in OPAL
- Will post an updated patch for the OMPI_ALIGNMENT_ parts (within C).
This commit was SVN r21342.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r21330 --> open-mpi/ompi@95596d1814
MTT caught builds failing with the following error which flagged the problem:
{{{
param.cc:802: error: ‘MPI_MAX_DATAREP_STRING’ was not declared in this scope
}}}
This commit was SVN r21337.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r21308 --> open-mpi/ompi@2f9765926e
into the OPAL namespace, eliminating cases like opal/util/arch.c
testing for ompi_fortran_logical_t.
As this is processor- and compiler-related information
(e.g. does the compiler/architecture support REAL*16)
this should have been on the OPAL layer.
- Unifies f77 code using MPI_Flogical instead of opal_fortran_logical_t
- Tested locally (Linux/x86-64) with mpich and intel testsuite
but would like to get this week-ends MTT output
- PLEASE NOTE: configure-internal macro-names and
ompi_cv_ variables have not been changed, so that
external platform (not in contrib/) files still work.
This commit was SVN r21330.
MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME
MPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING
MPI_MAX_OBJECT_NAME
MPI_MAX_INFO_KEY
MPI_MAX_INFO_VAL
MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME
MPI_MAX_DATAREP_STRING
Defaults stay as theyr currently are -- and now give an explanation on the
min/max values being used in a central place...
m4-macro _OPAL_WITH_OPTION_MIN_MAX_VALUE may be benefical in other parts
of the configure system.
- We need some of these in the lower level OPAL for an upcoming commit!
All other levels base their values on them.
This commit was SVN r21292.
functionality (per MPI-2.1). This warning can be toggled using
--enable-mpi-interface-warning (default OFF), but can be
selectively turned on passing
mpicc -DOMPI_WANT_MPI_INTERFACE_WARNING
Using icc, gcc < 4.5, warnings (such as in mpi2basic_tests) show:
type_vector.c:83: warning: ‘MPI_Type_hvector’ is deprecated
(declared at /home/../usr/include/mpi.h:1379)
Using gcc-4.5 (gcc-svn) these show up as:
type_vector.c:83: warning: ‘MPI_Type_hvector’ is deprecated
(declared at /home/../usr/include/mpi.h:1379):
MPI_Type_hvector is superseded by MPI_Type_create_hvector in MPI-2.0
Jeff and I propose to turn such warnings on with Open MPI-1.7 by default.
- Detection of user-level compiler is handled using the preprocessor
checks of GASnet's other/portable_platform.h (thanks to Paul Hargrove
and Dan Bonachea) adapted into ompi/include/mpi_portable_platform.h
(see comments).
The OMPI-build time detection is output (Familyname and Version)
with ompi_info.
This functionality (actually any upcoming __attribute__) are turned
off, if a different compiler (and version) is being detected.
- Note, that any warnings regarding (user-compiler!=build-compiler)
as discussed in the RFC are _not_ included for now.
- Tested on Linux with --enable-mpi-interface-warning on
Linux, gcc-4.5 (deprecated w/ specific msg)
Linux, gcc-4.3 (deprecated w/o specific msg)
Linux, pathscale 3.1 (deprecated w/o specific msg)
Linux, icc-11.0 (deprecated w/o specific msg)
Linux, PGI-8.0.6 accepts __deprecated__ but does not issue a warning,
further investigation needed...
This commit was SVN r21262.
OMPI_* to OPAL_*. This allows opal layer to be used more independent
from the whole of ompi.
NOTE: 9 "svn mv" operations immediately follow this commit.
This commit was SVN r21180.
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
opal layer.
Add a check against a maximum (actually get rid of ifs internally to
opal_bitmap.c) -- the functionality to set the current maximum size
opal_bitmap_set_max_size() is currently only used in attribute.c
to set the maximum OMPI_FORTRAN_HANDLE_MAX...
Tested on linux/x86-64 with intel-tests with all_tests_no_perf_f
run with 6 procs.
Let's look into MTT as well...
This commit was SVN r20708.
* New "op" MPI layer framework
* Addition of the MPI_REDUCE_LOCAL proposed function (for MPI-2.2)
= Op framework =
Add new "op" framework in the ompi layer. This framework replaces the
hard-coded MPI_Op back-end functions for (MPI_Op, MPI_Datatype) tuples
for pre-defined MPI_Ops, allowing components and modules to provide
the back-end functions. The intent is that components can be written
to take advantage of hardware acceleration (GPU, FPGA, specialized CPU
instructions, etc.). Similar to other frameworks, components are
intended to be able to discover at run-time if they can be used, and
if so, elect themselves to be selected (or disqualify themselves from
selection if they cannot run). If specialized hardware is not
available, there is a default set of functions that will automatically
be used.
This framework is ''not'' used for user-defined MPI_Ops.
The new op framework is similar to the existing coll framework, in
that the final set of function pointers that are used on any given
intrinsic MPI_Op can be a mixed bag of function pointers, potentially
coming from multiple different op modules. This allows for hardware
that only supports some of the operations, not all of them (e.g., a
GPU that only supports single-precision operations).
All the hard-coded back-end MPI_Op functions for (MPI_Op,
MPI_Datatype) tuples still exist, but unlike coll, they're in the
framework base (vs. being in a separate "basic" component) and are
automatically used if no component is found at runtime that provides a
module with the necessary function pointers.
There is an "example" op component that will hopefully be useful to
those writing meaningful op components. It is currently
.ompi_ignore'd so that it doesn't impinge on other developers (it's
somewhat chatty in terms of opal_output() so that you can tell when
its functions have been invoked). See the README file in the example
op component directory. Developers of new op components are
encouraged to look at the following wiki pages:
https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/Autogenhttps://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateComponenthttps://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateFramework
= MPI_REDUCE_LOCAL =
Part of the MPI-2.2 proposal listed here:
https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/24
is to add a new function named MPI_REDUCE_LOCAL. It is very easy to
implement, so I added it (also because it makes testing the op
framework pretty easy -- you can do it in serial rather than via
parallel reductions). There's even a man page!
This commit was SVN r20280.
corrections to non-windows files (but within ifdef __WINDOWS__)
type casts, event library for windows use win32.
in orte runtime, add windows sockets handling and object construction.
This commit was SVN r20110.
Rationale:
1. This value has already changed since v1.2 (v1.2 MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME
== 36). Hence, this commit simply increases the value from a
previous change.
1. The changes does increase OMPI's memory footprint slightly, but
only when using MPI-2 dynamics. So it is expected that the change
will have minimal impact on the overall footprint.
1. The change is helpful for nodes that have 4 or more IP networks
(e.g., regular ethernet and multiple IP-over-<pick your favorite
high-speed network> networks). Without this change, invoking
MPI_COMM_SPAWN on hosts with 4 or more IP networks will fail
because we'll exceed 256 bytes for the port name. Some OMPI
developer test clusters already have this kind of configuration
(e.g., Cisco); it is expected that this is not too common in the
real world yet, but with "manycore" coming, having multiple
IP-based networks in a single server will likely become more
common.
This commit was SVN r19638.
This fixes trac:1477.
Help provided by Jeff and Terry.
This commit was SVN r19533.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1477 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1477
* Various changes to enable 0-dimensional cartesian communicators:
* Set various mtc_* members to NULL when there are 0 dimensions (and
don't bother trying to memcpy these arrays when duplicating the
communicator -- because they're NULL)
* adjust topo_base_cart_sub to correctly handle 0 dimensions
(simplified it a bit)
* adjust a few error codes to return ERR_OUT_OF_RESOURCE
* adjust error checking of CART_CREATE, CART_RANK
* Allow MPI_GRAPH_CREATE to accept 0 == nnodes.
* Bump reported MPI version in mpi.h to 2.1
This commit was SVN r19461.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1236 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1236
* add "register" function to mca_base_component_t
* converted coll:basic and paffinity:linux and paffinity:solaris to
use this function
* we'll convert the rest over time (I'll file a ticket once all
this is committed)
* add 32 bytes of "reserved" space to the end of mca_base_component_t
and mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t to make future upgrades
[slightly] easier
* new mca_base_component_t size: 196 bytes
* new mca_base_component_data_2_0_0_t size: 36 bytes
* MCA base version bumped to v2.0
* '''We now refuse to load components that are not MCA v2.0.x'''
* all MCA frameworks versions bumped to v2.0
* be a little more explicit about version numbers in the MCA base
* add big comment in mca.h about versioning philosophy
This commit was SVN r19073.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 1392 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1392
Benefits of this function will be using less memory, compactness and better performance. Thanks to George.
Keep the old memchecker function as well in case of convertor is not available.
This commit was SVN r18084.
implement specific function, thereby
removing bogus requirement on valgrind/valgrind.h
dough...
- Call specific function runindebugger() before
doing expensive checks on each component of struct.
- Get rid of void* warnings..
This commit was SVN r17438.