[MPI3 Fortran] MPI Fortran bindings

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Friday 05 June 2009 12:16, Lionel, Steve wrote:

> Not much of anything, really, if we choose not to go the C_PTR route.
This is a deep and fundamental change to the old interface.

TYPE(C_PTR), VALUE :: address_of_buffer

is fundamentally different from

TYPE(type_of_buffer), DIMENSION(*), INTENT(IN) :: buffer

I hate C_PTR, personally...

> Just the interface alone, with the placeholder, doesn't say much.  I
> suppose words would have to be added saying that the argument must
> have a defined type.
Unless such words are added, your:
> The way it
> would be declared in the actual interface block would not allow a
> CLASS(*) actual except within a SELECT TYPE block.
would in my interpretation become a non conforming implementation. "Any 
type" really means "any type", unless you say something more. Otherwise 
you are back to the horrors of MPI-1's Fortran interface...

Best,
Aleks

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