The standard says that the null handles are invalid for input unless explicitly permitted.  There’s no exemption for a datatype argument where the associated count is zero.

Bill

William Gropp
Director, Parallel Computing Institute
Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science
Chief Scientist, NCSA
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign





On Jan 12, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it allowed to communicate messages with (buffer=NULL,count=0,type=MPI_DATATYPE_NULL)?

George thinks MPI_DATATYPE_NULL cannot be used even when count=0, which I think is ridiculous, particularly when one makes the analogy to buffer=NULL.

See http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2016/01/28255.php for the thread in question.

There is example code in MPI that uses this behavior.  George and I agree that example text is non-normative, but I cannot imagine how this example came to exist without the Forum believing it to be valid.

Jeff

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