[mpi-21] Ballot 4 - Re: Re: SEND COUNT and RECEIVE COUNT

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Bill, 
please can you forward this to Yukiya Aoyama <aoyama_at_...>,
the originator of this track.
Thanks, Rolf
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This is a proposal for MPI 2.1, Ballot 4.

This is a follow up to:
  Description of the send and receive count arguments to MPI_Alltoallv 
  in http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp/projects/parallel/MPI/mpi-errata/index.html
with mail discussion in
  http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp/projects/parallel/MPI/mpi-errata/discuss/alltoallv/

Based on the questions for clarification, I propose not to include
any further clarification into the standard.

Reason:
MPI-1, Sect. 4.8, MPI_ALLTOALLV, page 112, lines 37-40 clearly states:

  "The type signature associated with sendcount[j], sendtype at 
  process i must be equal to the type signature associated with 
  recvcount[i], recvtype at process j. This implies that the amount 
  of data sent must be equal to the amount of data received, pairwise 
  between every pair of processes. Distinct type maps between sender 
  and receiver are still allowed."

The same text is also used for 
MPI-2.0, Sect. 7.3.5 MPI_ALLTOALLW, page 165, lines 42-45.

Okay?

Best regards
Rolf

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