[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integers kinds

[Jeff Squyres]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Craig Rasmussen wrote:

> > 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.
>


They exist in MPI-2.2.  IIRC, MPI_ADDRESS_KIND has existed since  
MPI-1.0; I think MPI_OFFSET_KIND was new in MPI-2.0...?  I don't  
remember the exact history.

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