<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>But the advice to users that follows it specifically describes what happens when an array, rather than a scalar, is passed, and this advice appears at the time of the original definition, in MPI 2.0. From that, it is clear that the *intent* of the Forum was to permit arrays to be passed to MPI_SIZEOF; otherwise, this text would never have been written.<div><br></div><div>So I'll agree that the interface hasn't changed - it has *always* permitted an array as an argument.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 13, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Back to MPI_SIZEOF in mpif.h:<br><br>A few clarifications:<br><br>1) The interface of Argument x was not changed between<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> MPI-2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and MPI-3.0:<br> It is always "<type> x" for mpif.h, i.e., without a dimension.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>