<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">IIRC, this did come up during the discussions in the Forum, with the conclusion that since it didn't affect most users, only tool builders, they'd have to change. As Marc-Andre notes, for the C wrappers and const, there is a very low tech solution which is not too bad.<div><br></div><div>Fortran is another story. I'm very concerned about the amount of effort in both implementation and testing that appears to be required.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 23, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Marc-Andre Hermanns wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Pavan,<br><br>sorry, didn't directly answer your last question:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Am I missing something here? Are all tools now required to have an<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">#if MPI_VERSION >= 3 check? Does this mean that all existing tools<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are now broken for MPI-3 implementations?<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>I guess it only affects tools that do use pre-generated wrappers. Tools that parse mpi.h and generate wrappers from what they find there might still work.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Marc-Andre<br>-- <br>Marc-Andre Hermanns<br>German Research School for<br>Simulation Sciences GmbH<br>c/o Laboratory for Parallel Programming<br>52062 Aachen | Germany<br><br>Tel +49 241 80 99753<br>Fax +49 241 80 6 99753<br>Web <a href="http://www.grs-sim.de">www.grs-sim.de</a><br><br>Members: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | RWTH Aachen University<br>Registered in the commercial register of the local court of<br>Düren (Amtsgericht Düren) under registration number HRB 5268<br>Registered office: Jülich<br>Executive board: Prof. Marek Behr, Ph.D | Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>