Dear Gabriele,
to the best of my knowledge the MPI standard does not provide such a
function.
The reason is that when calling MPI_Gather, the standard requires
matching type signatures (i.e., the sendcount and sendtype argument on
each of the non root processes must match the recvcount and recvtype
arguments at the root process). This still allows having disting type
maps (type and displacement pairs) at a sender process and at the root
process, but it is a feature seldom used in practice, at least in my
experience.
Therefore, you must know in advance the datatype you are receiving
even in the case this datatype is a derived datatype.
If not, the likely outcome is that the receive buffer at the root
process gets overwritten, which causes MPI_Gather to return an error.
Due to the signature of the MPI_Gather function, the only possibility
I see to achieve what you are trying to do is to use the MPI_BYTE
datatype, and use the communicator argument to distinguish between a
collective gather in which you receive MPI_INT, MPI_DOUBLE etc. Of
course I would not create nor recommend to create new communicators
for this purpose only.
Kind regards,
Massimo
On 30/mar/09, at 17:43, Gabriele Fatigati wrote:
Dear OpenMPI developers,
i'm writing an MPI_Gather wrapper to collect void elements. My
queation is: is there a portable way to know the type of received
elements, like MPI_INT or MPI_DOUBLE? I've noted that i can retrieve
this information by ompi_datatype_t-> name field, but i think isn't
portable. Is there aMPI function that does this check?
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