[MPI3 Fortran] What if Fortran is the primary interface?

[Supalov, Alexander]

Possibly. The point at hand is MPICH2: int for all handles but MPI_File,
which is a pointer. All friends and relatives (MS MPI, Intel MPI, etc.)
typically follow suit. 

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On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Supalov, Alexander wrote:

> Thanks. I just wanted to alert everybody to the fact that handles  
> may be
> very different from pointers in their nature, and that a single
> implementation may use both integers and pointers for different opaque
> object handles.
>

I assume this means they have different type definitions for each  
different type of handle, correct?

Craig

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