<div dir="ltr">My fault. I misunderstood the text.<div><br></div><div>PS: I find  MPI_CHAR variables are a little special.  For  MPI_INT like variables, we get their count from *_handle_alloc. When we write them, very likely we don't increase its count. But for MPI_CHAR variables, it is not the case. When you write them, you probably have a longer string to write! </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Kathryn Mohror <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathryn@llnl.gov" target="_blank">kathryn@llnl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Junchao,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what you mean. MPI_CHAR is in the list of types allowed for variables in section 14.3.5.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Kathryn</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Junchao Zhang <<a href="mailto:jczhang@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">jczhang@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">When to use MPI_CHAR? I don't find it in the text.<br>
At least, for non-generic pvars, MPI_CHAR is not in the allowed types currently.</p><p dir="ltr">--Junchao Zhang</p>
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