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From Marty Itzkowitz:

I dislike the use of the feminine pronouns by default. Either rewrite so that neither masculine nor feminine pronouns are needed, or always use "he or she", "his or her."

I personally don't have a big opinion here, but the rest of the MPI standard is written that way and I think we need to be consistent with it (unless we want to suggest global changes). In fact, in most cases the feminine versions are straight copies of text used in the MPI 2.2 standard.

Looks like it is only in the profiling interface (PMPI), and it is has been there since MPI 1.0. Rajeev