This is not already on Bill's errata page. Proposal: ballot 2 removed "const" from several predefined MPI C++ handles. This was incorrect; they should have been left const. Remove text from the "Updated MPI-2.0 errata" document: p7:33-41. NOTE: this proposal is dependent upon the proposal to change some INOUT parameters to IN and add "const" to the corresponding C++ methods. -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems