It looks like Past Jeff was wrong: the removal of the choice buffers from the non-ignore-TKR version of the Fortran mpi module (which is only used for gfortran <=v4.8) *does* cause ABI breakage between 1.7.3 and 1.7.4.
Per discussion on the telconf today, we decided that we're going to do this anyway, because it's an MPI-3.0 conformance issue. I've added the following to the README in the ABI section: * A second bug was discovered after v1.7.3 was released that causes ABI to be broken for gfortran users who are using the "mpi" Fortran module. In short, for versions of gfortran that do not support "ignore TKR" functionality (i.e., gfortran <=v4.8), Open MPI was providing interfaces for MPI subroutines with choice buffers (e.g., MPI_Send) in the Fortran mpi module. The MPI-3.0 specification expressly states not to do this. To be consistent with MPI-3, Open MPI v1.7.4 therefore removed all MPI interfaces with choice buffers from the no-ignore-TKR version of the Fortran mpi module, even though this breaks ABI between v1.7.3 and v1.7.4. Affected users should be able to recompile their MPI applications with v1.7.4 with no changes. Other Fortran compilers that provide "ignore TKR" functionality are not affected by this change. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
