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Subject: Re: [Mpi-22] [Mpi-forum] MPI 2.2 proposal: resolving MPI_Request_free issues
From: Richard Treumann (treumann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 16:57:22


How is this different from saying MPI_REQUEST_FREE was a mistake. The
behavior of an application that uses this call is undefined.

Of course we could add MPI_NO_REQUEST_FREE as an MPI_Init time assertion
and say that any MPI implementation optimization that create the problems
Erez describes are only valid when the application has asserted
MPI_NO_REQUEST_FREE.

Dick Treumann - MPI Team/TCEM
IBM Systems & Technology Group
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mpi-22-bounces_at_[hidden] wrote on 07/17/2008 03:40:55 PM:

>
> The text specifically would say that writing or freeing the buffer
> after calling MPI_Request_free is unsafe.
>
> Thanks,
> .Erez
>