[MPI3 Fortran] Proposed solution for the volatile buffer problem

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Jan 15 2009, Aleksandar Donev wrote:
>
>On Thursday 15 January 2009 01:33, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
>>     CALL Fred(array(1:99:2))
>
>Or maybe you meant that this kind of example also needs to be prohibited 
>for the MPI async I/O, showing that something like the ASYNC attribute 
>(for data objects, not just procedures), is necessary. That I agree 
>with :-)

I did.  I was trying to explain why Bill's proposal to make the MPI calls
VOLATILE merely across that call would not fly.  A data attribute is needed.


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Nick Maclaren,
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