here it goes, https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/changeset/31751



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wes...@tu-dresden.de>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> the Score-P community is currently in the process to support the OpenSHMEM
> API in its performance measurement infrastructure Score-P [1]. And we are
> near a release of a new major version of it. Now that Open MPI also
> provides an OpenSHMEM implementation, we extended our testing also to the
> new 1.8 version of Open MPI. We already submitted some bug reports while we
> are working on this, but the last one isn't really a bug though:
>
> The OpenSHMEM standard does not include the shmem_finalize API, though
> Open MPI provides one and also ensures (via the destructor attribute) that
> this function is called in the end. But when a performance monitor like
> Score-P intercepts the library calls via weak symbols we finally need to
> call the original function too. As the user is free to call this function
> itself, but Score-P still needs the parallel context to finalize the
> measurement after exiting main, we need to intercept shmem_finalize and
> call the real shmem_finalize after we are done. But unfortunately we can't
> call the original shmem_finalize as there is no pshmem_finalize in Open
> MPI. But without finalizing the Open MPI library orterun will report errors
> because the application did not call shmem_finalize.
>
> So our pledge to the Open MPI community is to provide the pshmem_finalize
> symbol, even though this function is not (yet) in the OpenSHMEM standard.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bert Wesarg
>
> [1] http://www.vi-hps.org/projects/score-p
>
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