[Mpi-21] Small clarification in I/O chapter for external32

[Rob Ross]

Do we want to further clarify that there is no padding of structures  
etc? Or is that clear already? -- Rob

On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:

> Alexander Supalov pointed out to me that the following sentence in  
> the MPI-2
> I/O chapter, under external32 data representation, pg 250 lines  
> 24-25 is
> misleading:
>
> "All data items are stored contiguously in the file."
>
> It is intended to mean that there is no prescribed alignment in the
> resulting file (to word boundary, etc.). But the data is stored  
> contiguously
> only as long as the file view is contiguous. Accordingly, we propose  
> to
> clarify the sentence as follows, with the additional text in  
> parenthesis:
>
> "All data items are stored contiguously in the file (if the file  
> view is
> contiguous)."
>
> Regards,
> Rajeev
>
>
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