[Mpi-22] MPI_Aint/MPI_ADDRESS_KIND equivalence and ticket #18

[Dave Goodell]

On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
>
>> Address-sized variables in MPI can be passed from C to Fortran or  
>> vice
>> versa, and I know of no c2f or f2c conversion functions for them.  
>> So I think
>> MPI_Aint and integer (kind=MPI_ADDRESS_KIND) are assumed to be of  
>> the same
>> size at least implicitly.
>>
>
> I agree.  Should we state this explicitly somewhere (if we didn't  
> already)?

FYI,

I've created ticket #141 to clarify the text in this regard: https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/141

-Dave