[MPI3 Fortran] MPI function symbol naming convention for tools

[Jeff Squyres]

Craig -- see my reply.  I think tools will need to support both for a while (i.e., while there's still implementations with the old way out there).

But eventually all implementations will move to the new way, and the 4 old conventions (MPI_SEND, mpi_send, mpi_send_, mpi_send__) will go away.

That's my $0.02, at least...


On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Rasmussen, Craig E wrote:

> 
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:39 AM, Martin Schulz wrote:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> In another sense, if we mandate specific symbols for mpif.h/use mpi, we might break some tools, but put ourselves in a better place for the future.  Since a tool already has to sense which back-end symbol to use mpif.h/use mpi (lower case, caps, 1 underscore, 2 underscores -- none of which are mandated by the Fortran spec, by the way; it's just common convention), is it really a hardship to add another symbol name to check during the tools configuration/building mechanism?
>> 
>> I am more worrying about existing tools - those would all
>> have to be changed.
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
> 
> Could you comment on the possibility of deprecating what is essentially the current mpif.h tool access.
> 
> -craig
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