"Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquy...@cisco.com> writes: > Before Fortran 08, there was no Fortran equivalent of C's (void*). > Hence, it was actually impossible -- using pure Fortran -- to have > Fortran prototypes for MPI subroutines that take a choice buffer > (e.g., MPI_Send, which takes a (void*) buffer argument in C).
Just a note that Fortran 2008 doesn't really have this either. It is in TS 29113, which is scheduled for inclusion in the next Fortran standard. Many compilers support it already.
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