[MPI3 Fortran] Argument data sizes

[Iain Bason]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Iain Bason wrote:
>
>> Is there some reason an implementation couldn't issue a runtime  
>> "value out of range" error message?
>
>
> Sure, we can do that easily.
>
> But my question is: if the *interface* supports these large values,  
> won't users have a reasonable expectation that they can *use* these  
> large values?

I suppose there's no way to know for sure (aside from surveying MPI  
programmers), but I would think if we document it then any such  
expectation the users have might be deemed unreasonable.

Iain