[Carpet] status of CarpetSlab

[Thomas Radke]

Erik Schnetter wrote:
>> I tried to rewrite this call to something similar in CarpetIOASCII but
>> then got stuck when entering singlemap mode - in which mode should
>> Hyperslab_Get be called ?
> 
> 
> It should be called in singlemap mode.

But then the code in CarpetTest/src/slabtest.cc:48 must be wrong: a grid 
function pointer 'yy' is passed as hdata argument into Hyperslab_Get() 
but this pointer is always NULL in modes other than LOCAL.

>> It seems that CarpetSlab has been broken for a long time already (at
>> least since December 2006 when the nightly Cactus integration tests  had
>> started). It is not being used anywhere except in CarpetTest. Should  it
>> be moved to CarpetDev ?
> 
> Yes, I we can move it to CarpetDev, or maybe CarpetAttic since we have  
> no concrete plans to improve it.

And CarpetTest too ?

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Cheers, Thomas.