Thanks!
I've submitted ticket 484 about this:
http://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/484
On 9/29/06 8:25 PM, "Lisandro Dalcin" <dalc...@intec.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> I've just catched a problem with packing/unpacking using 'external32'
> in Linux. The problem seems to be word ordering, I believe you forgot
> to make the little-endian <-> big-endian conversion somewhere. Below,
> an interactive session with ipython (sorry, no time to write in C)
> showing the problem. Please, ignore me if this has been already
> reported.
>
> In [1]: import numpy
>
> In [2]: from mpi4py import MPI
>
> In [3]: print numpy.dtype('i').itemsize, MPI.INT.extent
> 4 4
>
> In [4]: print numpy.dtype('b').itemsize, MPI.BYTE.extent
> 1 1
>
> In [5]:
>
> In [5]: arr1 = numpy.array([256], dtype='i') # one int, for input
>
> In [6]: print arr1
> [256]
>
> In [7]: buf = numpy.array([0,0,0,0], dtype='b') # four bytes, auxiliar
>
> In [8]: print buf
> [0 0 0 0]
>
> In [9]: p = MPI.INT.Pack_external('external32', arr1, buf, 0)
>
> In [10]: print buf, repr(buf.tostring())
> [0 1 0 0] '\x00\x01\x00\x00'
>
> In [11]: arr2 = numpy.array([0], dtype='i') # one int, for output
>
> In [12]: print arr2
> [0]
>
> In [13]: p = MPI.INT.Unpack_external('external32', buf, 0, arr2)
>
> In [14]: print arr2
> [65536]
>
> In [15]: print arr2.byteswap()
> [256]
>
>
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