Do you think this should go into 2.2 or 3.0 ? I ask not because the change is large, but because it will change the signature of several interface functions (presumably marking the older functions as deprecated - for removal in X number of years). There is another change that I would like to see added to the standard, which is adding a way to convey information between MPI_Alloc_mem() to the functions using this memory, w/o forcing the implementations to try and use all sorts of non-portable solutions to figure out if this memory can be used "as-is" by the network layer, of if it needs to be "prepared" (pinned, and ?). It seems prudent to combine such interface changes into the smallest number of changes (1 is preferred). What do you think ? Rich On 1/24/08 12:18 PM, "Rajeev Thakur" <thakur_at_[hidden]> wrote:
A similar one is needed for MPI_Aint.
Rajeev
-----Original Message----- From: mpi-22-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi-22-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Richard Graham Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:09 AM To: mpi-22_at_[hidden] Subject: [mpi-22] FW: [mpi-21] Proposal: MPI_OFFSET built-in type
Moving this to the appropriate list.
Rich
------ Forwarded Message From: Robert Latham <robl_at_[hidden]> Reply-To: "Mailing list for discussion of MPI 2.1" <mpi-21_at_[hidden]> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:41:52 -0600 To: <mpi-21_at_[hidden]> Subject: [mpi-21] Proposal: MPI_OFFSET built-in type
I hope this is less contentious than adding 'const' keywords...
I would like to propose a new built-in type MPI_OFFSET, defined to be a type corresponding to INTEGER(KIND=MPI_OFFSET_KIND) or MPI_Offset
This is a minor addition to the standard, which would have no impact on existing code while serving to simplify code which exchanges file offsets among processes.
There is a workaround in the standard: a user can define a type from MPI_BYTE:
MPI_Type_contiguous(sizeof(MPI_Offset), MPI_BYTE, &offtype);
However, it would clearly be more convienient to operate on built-in types.
MPI Datatype: MPI_OFFSET Corresponding C type: long long int Corresponding Fortran type: INTEGER(KIND=MPI_OFFSET_KIND)
Thanks ==rob
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