That being said, should we remove these fortran types from include files and 
libs when ompi is configure'd without fortran support ?

Cheers,

Gilles

Jeff Hammond <jeff.scie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW: is there a reason you don't want to just use the C datatypes?  The 
>> fundamental output of the index is an integer value -- casting it to a float 
>> of some flavor doesn't fundamentally change its value.
>
>
>The code in question is not mine.  I have suggested to the developers that 
>they should use the correct C types.  The reason I became aware of this issue 
>is that one of my colleagues compiled and ran this code on a system where 
>OpenMPI was built without Fortran support and the code started failing with 
>errors from MPI which were not seen on other systems.
>
>
>
>If you use an MPI library compiled without Fortran support, you should expect 
>precisely nothing related to Fortran to work.  You might get more than this 
>because the universe is being nice to you, but you should treat it as 
>serendipity when something works, not a bug when something doesn't.
>
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
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>
>Jeff Hammond
>jeff.scie...@gmail.com
>http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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