[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integers kinds

[Craig Rasmussen]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> 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.

We'll good then, we have precedence for something like MPI_INT_KIND.

-craig