On Monday 17 March 2008 14:40, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Craig mentioned last week that if we have these opaque Fortran types
> (with their contents unspecified), that we could be guaranteed that
> their first member would be at the first byte of the instance.
If the type has the BIND(C) attribute, which it should, then it has exactly
the same layout as a C struct would with the same members in the same order.
So whatever C99 guarantees or does not guarantee applies (check the C
standard :-). If it is not a BIND(C) datatype then there are no guarantees of
any sort.
In C, would you make the C Interface:
void MPI_Send(..., struct MPI_Comm comm,...)
or do you want
void MPI_Send(..., struct MPI_Comm *comm,...)
?
Either one of these could be translated into an *equivalent* Fortran
interface, where by equivalence I mean full binary compatibility.
Aleks
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