[Mpi3-bwcompat] MPI Backward Compatibility Working Group

[Fab Tillier]

Jeff, I like your wording, looks good to me.  Are you going to fix up the latex and generate new PDFs that we can send out?

-Fab

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From: mpi3-bwcompat-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi3-bwcompat-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:21 AM
To: MPI-3 backwards compatability WG
Subject: Re: [Mpi3-bwcompat] MPI Backward Compatibility Working Group

On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Solt, David George wrote:

> 2.5.8 Last sentence change to:
>  
> The size of the MPI_Count type is determined by the MPI implementation 
> with the restriction that it must be minimally capable of encoding a C 
> int and Fortran INTEGER and any value that may be stored in an MPI_Aint type.

"...and any value that may be stored in a variable of type MPI_Aint."

> Rational thingy:

Rationale.  Potatoes.  :-)

> MPI_Count is used to communicate both the number of elements in a datatype and the bounds of a datatype.
> The number of elements in a datatype is specified at creation time using a C int or Fortran INTEGER.   The bounds
> may be specified using an MPI_Aint. 

This is good.  I would change the wording slightly -- let's not use the verb "communicate" here:

"MPI_Count explicitly specifies the number of elements in a datatype, and therefore implicitly specifies the bounds of that datatype.  The number of elements in a datatype is specified at creation time using a C int or Fortran INTEGER.  The extent of a datatype is expressed using an MPI_Aint.

How's that?


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