I support this change. Puri ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Gropp" <[email protected]> To: "Main MPI Forum mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:08:04 PM Subject: Re: [Mpi-forum] Compile problems with examples in MPI Standard We need to make an explicit decision on this. Shall we change the second argument of MPI_Init and MPI_Init_thread to be char *** ? Bill William Gropp Director, Parallel Computing Institute Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

On Jul 24, 2012, at 12:21 PM, William Gropp wrote:

...

Clearly, we need to change the prototype for MPI_Init and MPI_Init_thread. The best choice is probably back to the original:

char ***argv_p

since that's what it is (complete with a rationale for why it isn't what we're currently using). I prefer this to the char (*(*(argv_p[]))), ...

Oh the irony!! :-)

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