[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integers kinds

[Craig Rasmussen]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> 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).

I'm not sure what you mean by already exists.  I believe they are just  
used in our mpi3 test interfaces.  I don't think they have been  
formally proposed yet.

-craig


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