Confused about schCheck

[Jake]

Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about the return value of the function
schCheck. If I run the function from the CIW, I get a list of
specific warnings, along with the actual value of the function, which
is a list whose first element is the number of errors and whose second
element is the number of warnings. However, if I specify an output
port and ask to print the output of a function to that output port, I
get only the return value of the function (which is actually what I
would expect). How do I get it to actually print those warnings and
errors to an external file?

Thanks,
Jake

 

[andrewb]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:38:42 -0800 (PST), Jake <wegman.jake@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about the return value of the function
schCheck. If I run the function from the CIW, I get a list of
specific warnings, along with the actual value of the function, which
is a list whose first element is the number of errors and whose second
element is the number of warnings. However, if I specify an output
port and ask to print the output of a function to that output port, I
get only the return value of the function (which is actually what I
would expect). How do I get it to actually print those warnings and
errors to an external file?

Thanks,
Jake

You can either interrogate the markers on the schematic after the
check, or a simple thing to do would be this:

procedure(abCheck(cv file)
let((rpt rtnVal)
rpt=outfile(file)
unless(rpt error("Could not open report file %L" file))
rtnVal=let(((poport rpt))
schCheck(cv)
)
close(rpt)
rtnVal
))

This will redirect the output during schCheck to the specified file.
This is achieved by dynamic scoping of the poport variable - done
carefully so that even if there's an error during the call to
schCheck, the unwinding stack will restore the original value of
poport.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

[Jake]

Excellent as always, Andrew.

Thanks,
Jake