On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:03 PM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>> Yes, it can -- it has to be the largest integer type (i.e., it even has to >> be able to handle an MPI_Offset). > > Technicalities! In the entire standard MPI_Offset is only used to access > files, not to build datatypes. As such there is no way to have the extent of > an datatype bigger than MPI_Aint. Datatypes are used in FILE_SET_VIEW. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
