[MPI3 Fortran] Straw vote on integers kinds

[Jeff Squyres]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:21 PM, N.M. Maclaren wrote:

> Also, though it's not really related, and is clearly a trivially  
> fixable
> oversight, MPI_ADDRESS_KIND is a pain, because it doesn't have an  
> associated
> MPI type and so is not easy to transfer between processes.  Teaching
> attributes is not simplified by that gotcha :-(
>


FWIW, it now exists in MPI-2.2 (although is problematic in  
heterogeneous scenarios):

     https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/18

Also, there was a major "attribute example" cleanup, especially with  
regards to inter-language operations:

     https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/55

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Jeff Squyres
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