[MPI3 Fortran] MPI Fortran bindings

[Jeff Squyres]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Bill Long wrote:

> This looks too much like a scalar argument.  Perhaps
>
>       <type>,<dimension>,intent(IN) :: BUF
>
> where the details of <type> and <dimension> are implementation
> dependent.  The options for <type> would be TYPE(*) or something like
> INTEGER combined with a directive to ignore the actual type.
> <dimension> could be DIMENSION(*) combined with an ignore directive,  
> or
> DIMENSION(..).
>

Can <dimension> also be empty?

I'm wondering now if the previous suggestion of the following would be  
better:

       <any_type_and_shape>,intent(IN) :: BUF

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems