Le 24/08/2012 23:17, George Bosilca a écrit : > On Aug 24, 2012, at 09:06 , Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: > >> hwloc_obj_t already has a "void *userdata" for this. But we cannot store >> it in XML unless we know what it contains. > Contiguous binary structures with a known size can be stored in a XML file. > Instead of forcing the upper level to store their meaningful information as > arrays of one of a few predefined types, let them deal with the content of > the binary object, and focus on preserving the binary objects in the XML > structure. > >> Exporting to XML is strictly required here since people want to add >> values to the XML topology in a preliminary benchmarking programs, and >> later read it back in their actual application (a charm++ scheduler). > XDR exists for ensuring consistency. Let them store what they want not just > arrays.
What they want is arrays of floats :) Brice
