[MPI3 Fortran] Results of San Jose Forum meeting

[Bill Long]

Jeff Squyres wrote:

> 
> 3. The derived types for MPI handles in "use mpi3" will all be of the form:
> 
>    type MPI_Comm
>        sequence
>        INTEGER :: val
>    end type MPI_Comm
> 

A sequence type is not interoperable with C.  Did you consider

type,bind(c) :: MPI_Comm
    integer(c_int) :: val
end type MPI_Comm

instead?  If the routine that you are expecting to pass such an object 
to is written in C, this seems like a better option.

Cheers,
Bill

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