[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integers kinds

[Jeff Squyres]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Craig Rasmussen wrote:

> > I think that all four are a mistake, because they are conflating all
> > MPI
> > integers into one.  I would use two names, one for integers that may
> > scale
> > with memory size and one where that would be overkill.
>
> As Jeff had replied, there will be at least two integers.  One for
> integers that scale with memory size and others (like MPI tags) that
> don't.
>


Don't forget, too, that MPI_ADDRESS_KIND already exists (meant to be  
an integer type that is large enough to hold an address), as does  
MPI_OFFSET_KIND (for file offsets).

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Jeff Squyres
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