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 > > > >-- > >Jeff Hammond >jeff.scie...@gmail.com >http://jeffhammond.github.io/ >