bacio.c has some C functions that are never called from Fortran and can be removed...

[edwardhartnett]

In bacio.c we have four functions:

bacio()
banio()
baciol()
baniol()

The bacio functions are then called from Fortran.

But the banio functions are not called from anywhere. I rather think that no one is using the C interface to banio - it's very clumsy. So I suspect the banio functions can be removed.

[edwardhartnett]

I contacted Robert Grumbine, the original author of the code. His email confirms that this code is not used by any of our Fortran codes, so can safely be removed:

Hi Ed,

Yes, I remember writing the C side of bacio, back in the days we were getting off the Cray UNICOS systems. Mark Iredell was doing the Fortran. At the time I was one of the few, perhaps only, people in EMC who knew C.

Banio/Baniol was my addition for numeric (hence n) rather than c (character/byte) based io. I think the only person who used it was me, and I'd quit using it in operations by the early 2000s. If anyone else started using it, I never heard about it.

Am I remembering names correctly -- you gave a session on unit testing a while back?

Cheers,
Bob

[edwardhartnett]

Removing the banio helps out test coverage a lot!