[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integer kind specifier (at MPI Forum)

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Craig Rasmussen wrote:
> 5. Use of generics doesn't seem to help.  The generics would apply to
>   integer parameters like tag, dest, ... but not to the datatype.
>  Since the different wrapper compilers would have to used anyway
I do not understand this one, please explain. Are you talking about 
MPI_Datatype and what does not apply to it? I thought the problem we 
were discussing were exactly the non-count integer parameters and 
generics cleanly resolve that problem.
Aleks