On Jul 16, 2013, at 23:07 , "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> 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. Doesn't matter. There you don't create a datatype, you force one on the view you have of the file. I guess the forum was a little overzealous … George. > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
