[MPI3 Fortran] Request for a straw vote.

[Jeff Squyres]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Lionel, Steve wrote:

> >But I can also see that it would be a PITA for programmers to have to
> >specify *every* argument to MPI functions, and potentially have to
> >translate between their MPI-argument-variables and non-MPI-argument-
> >variables.  Shrug.
>
> No - programmers do NOT have to do this just because kinds are  
> specified. If default integer happens to match the declared kind, it  
> will just work without coding changes.  If programmers want to use  
> the kinds, they can, and would be encouraged to, but it is not  
> required.
>


If an MPI implementation uses MPI_TAG_KIND for MPI message tags that  
are 4 bytes and are the same as default INTEGERs, then I can  
understand the logic here.

But what if a user compiles a code that uses INTEGERs where  
INTEGER(MPI_TAG_KIND) parameters are expected with "ifort - 
i8" (transmorgifying default INTEGERs to be 8 bytes)?  Will their code  
refuse to compile?  If so, do users expect / compensate for this kind  
of behavior?

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems