[Mpi-forum] Review/Reading versions of #204 and #266

[Fab Tillier]

Hi Martin,

As I won't be at the Greece meeting, I thought I would give you feedback now.

I see that the string length handling is consistent with the silly precedent set with functions like MPI_COMM_GET_NAME, where the buffer length on input is assumed.  This is just bad software design, and I feel very strongly that we should from this pattern and have the string length specified on input by making the parameter INOUT just like you did for the MPI_T interfaces. 

Cheers,
-Fab

Martin Schulz wrote on Fri, 9 Sep 2011 at 00:11:40

> Hi all,
> 
> I uploaded new versions of the proposals
> 
> #204: MPI_Get_library_version
>    (also contains two suggested ticket 0 changes for the
>     MPI Environmental Management chapter)
> #266: The MPI tool information interface
> 
> for comments and as the versions intended for the formal
> readings in Greece.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> PS: Rich - could you please add a reading for #204 to the
> MPI_T reading time slot? This should only take 10min and
> I was planning to do this either right before or after the
> MPI_T reading. Thanks!
> 
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