[MPI3 Fortran] Proposing changes to Fortran 2008

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 10:35, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> because the  
> user application will have had to created an MPI datatype *at run  
> time* that will have accurate offsets/types of each member.
Out of curiosity: Have you seen codes that actually do that?
What I would do, to make my life simple, is treated the whole scalar of 
derived type as a blob of memory and ignored what fields are actually inside, 
in what order, and with what padding. On homogeneous architectures doesn't 
this work just fine?
Aleks