On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

I updated the ticket 343 with the now hopefully final text for the terms chapter (after Bronis', Bill's and Martin's comments) see https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/343 and the files attached to the ticket.

I hope that now all can agree with this correction of the existing inconsistency as detected in the public review and discussed in the previous emails.

Fortran:

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"Programs must not declare names, e.g., for variables, subroutines, functions, parameters, derived types, abstract interfaces, or modules, beginning with the prefix MPI_. To avoid conflicting with the profiling interface, programs must also avoid subroutines and functions with the prefix PMPI_."

Does "linker names" come under any of the categories so far? I know that some of the C compiler extensions to set linker names explicitly do not treat them as identifiers in the source code. Are those worth adding explicitly (to all languages, probably)? -- Jeremiah Willcock