On Jul 26, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
Be sure to read this thread in order -- the conclusion of the thread
was that we now actually *do* return NULL, per POSIX advice.
OK, I got confused. And now, MPI_Free_mem is going to fail with a NULL
pointer? Not sure what POSIX says, but then OMPI should also follow it
advice, right?
It's not going to *fail* -- it's just going to return a NULL pointer
if you ask for 0 bytes. This is perfectly valid according to POSIX's
definition of free(). Also, passing NULL to MPI_FREE_MEM will now
silently succeed (it will currently raise an MPI_ERR_ARG exception).
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
