well, to contradict my own position from previously, this function was part of the MPI-2 specification, and the only interfaces published for this function were C, C++ and F90. Not sure what this means for f90 applications however.
Thanks Edgar On 12/20/2010 3:59 PM, N.M. Maclaren wrote: > On Dec 20 2010, George Bosilca wrote: > >> There is a hint for F77 users at the bottom of the page. It suggests >> to use INTEGER*MPI_OFFSET_KIND as type for the SIZE. I guess if we >> cast it correctly, and the users follow the MPI specification, this >> should work. > > Please tell me you are joking? > > No, that will NOT work, in general. Firstly, the xxx in INTEGER*xxx was > introduced in Fortran IV as a digit string and not a constant, and all > of the compilers I know of still do that. Secondly, it is NOT always > aligned with the KIND values, and there is no implication in any document > I know of that it should be. > > Regards, > Nick Maclaren. > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel -- Edgar Gabriel Assistant Professor Parallel Software Technologies Lab http://pstl.cs.uh.edu Department of Computer Science University of Houston Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Room 524 Houston, TX-77204, USA Tel: +1 (713) 743-3857 Fax: +1 (713) 743-3335
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