[MPI3 Fortran] Teleconference Wednesday, Sept. 17: Summary

[Jeff Squyres]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Supalov, Alexander wrote:

> Thanks. I mentioned MPI_STATUS as a candidate for optional argument
> status at the telecon as well. However, beyond that, one should  
> probably
> be rather conservative: it might be possible to imagine realistic
> situations, in which an accidental erroneous call (with some omitted
> arguments) might be treated as a valid one for a shorter set of
> arguments. This may lead to very tough errors.


With the strong type checking in F03 and distinct types for MPI  
handles, I think the chance of this is pretty minimal.  I think we do  
need to be mindful of this scenario, but I think we can design  
interfaces such that common error cases like this shouldn't happen.

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems