Lisandro,
This code is not correct from the MPI standard perspective. The reason is
independent of the datatype or count, it is solely related to the fact that the
MPI_Reduce cannot accept a sendbuf equal to the recvbuf (or one has to use
MPI_IN_PLACE).
george.
On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:02 , Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> See the code below. The commented-out combinations for sbuf,rbuf do
> work, but the one passing sbuf=rbuf=NULL (i.e, the uncommented one
> show below) makes the call fail with MPI_ERR_ARG.
>
> #include <mpi.h>
>
> int main( int argc, char ** argv ) {
> int ierr;
> int sbuf,rbuf;
> MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
> ierr = MPI_Reduce(/*&sbuf, &rbuf,*/
> /*&sbuf, NULL,*/
> /*NULL, &rbuf,*/
> NULL, NULL,
> 0, MPI_INT,
> MPI_SUM, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
> MPI_Finalize();
> return 0;
> }
>
>
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