[Mpi-forum] overloading MPI_Init etc.

[Jeff Hammond]

I have a user who insists it is MPI-compliant to do the following:

user file mpi.h, which is included in the application with #include "mpi.h":
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#include <mpi.h>

<snip>

void MPI_Init(int argc, char* argv[], int& my_rank, int& mpi_size, int& Master)
{
  MPI::Init(argc, argv);
  my_rank = MPI::COMM_WORLD.Get_rank();
  mpi_size = MPI::COMM_WORLD.Get_size();
  Master = 0;

  std::cout << "Hello World! I am " << my_rank << " of " << mpi_size
<< std::endl;
}

void MPI_finalize()
{MPI::Finalize();}

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I believe that it is a terrible practice, if not a violation of the
MPI standard to:
(1) define one's own mpi.h, since this may confuse the preprocessor
(or are there precedence rules in the ANSI C standard?) as to which to
include first (especially if CC=mpicc or CXX=mpicxx), and
(2) overload MPI_Init, even if one is using C++ and relying upon C++
name-mangling to avoid a symbol conflict.

The user believes that the inability to overload MPI_Init in C++ means
that MPI is not compliant with the C++ standard.

Thanks,

Jeff

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University of Chicago Computation Institute
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