[MPI3 Fortran] MPI-2 Fortran question: 2D char array in MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE

[Jeff Squyres]

On May 25, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

> MPI-2.2, p310:18-25 defines:
> 
> "The argv argument argv is an array of strings containing arguments that are passed to
> the program. The first element of argv is the first argument passed to command, not, as
> is conventional in some contexts, the command itself. The argument list is terminated by
> NULL in C and C++ and an empty string in Fortran.

I mis-read this last line when I read it -- now I understand what Rolf is saying (and, in fact, it's exactly what someone said earlier that the spec would need to be right).

Thanks Rolf!

> The code fragment below is wrong because it does
> try to detect an overall second_dim_size instead of individual
> second_dim_size(i) for i=1,count.

Also a good point -- in OMPI, we assume that all the argv arrays will have the same number of tokens for each command.  But this is not necessarily the case.  I'll fix.

Thanks!

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