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

[Jeff Squyres]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Bill Long wrote:

> Your examples would be straightforward to handle in Fortran with  
> generic interfaces.  I assume there is a similar mechanism in C++.    
> I don't see how you could write corresponding prototypes in C, so  
> the calling argument lists in Fortran/C++ would be different from  
> those in C.    I guess that's unavoidable, but might cause some user  
> head-scratching.


My point is that MPI already set a precedent for this in the C++  
bindings (some of the bindings, particularly those that accept  
*_IGNORE kinds of constants, drop arguments rather than have the  
corresponding MPI::*_IGNORE constant in the C++ bindings).

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems