On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:35 AM, devendra rai wrote:
> In general, we cannot assume portability of sending a C/C++ struct as a
> stream of bytes. There must be a promise that data representation on machines
> involved in the transmission must perform the same data layout.
Correct.
> I have a function that commits the new datatype: Add_New_MPITypes(). This is
> called just after MPI_Init(...).
> After a few subsequent function calls, I am doing MPI-Send/Receive in another
> function, which looks like:
>
> void sendMessagetoSlave(void* Payload, int MESSAGETYPE)
> {
> switch (MESSAGETYPE)
> {
> case MSGINSTALLP:
> {
> //Add_MPI_msgInstallP_Type(); /*Was already done in
> Add_New_MPITypes() */
> msgInstallP InstallPMessage;
> InstallPMessage = *(msgInstallP*)Payload;
> MPI_Ssend(
> (void*)Payload, /* Payload */
> sizeof(msgInstallP), /* size of the payload
> */
> MPI_MSGINSTALLP, /* MPI Data type */
> InstallPMessage.location, /* location to which
> the message is being sent */
> MASTERSLAVECONTROLMESSAGE, /* Tag */
> MPI_COMM_WORLD /* Communicator */
> );
> }
> break;
>
> default:
> break;
> }
> }
>
> The linker complains that it does not know MPI_MSGINSTALLP derived datatype.
> Specifically, the message from the linker is:
>
> "‘MPI_MSGINSTALLP’ was not declared in this scope".
This sounds like another C++ programming error, and not an MPI-specific error.
I'll answer this one, but please know that this list is intended for Open
MPI-specific questions, or questions about MPI in general, not general C/C++
programming help.
The issue is where MPI_MSGINSTALLP is prototyped, and where it is "visible".
In this case, it sounds like MPI_MSGINSTALLP is declared in another function
somewhere else, or is otherwise not either globally visible or visible in the
namespace where sendMessagetoSlave() resides. Hence, when the compiler
compiles sendMessagetoSlave, it has no idea what the symbol MPI_MSGINSTALLP is.
It's like this:
void foo() {
int i;
}
void bar() {
// can't use "i" here because "i" lives in foo(), and bar() has
// no idea what "i" is
}
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