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

[Rajeev Thakur]

If we can get the wording for that right... I think the current sentence was
intended as an easier alternative to that. 

Rajeev

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> external32
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> 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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