[MPI3 Fortran] [Mpi3-tools] Issues with Fortran bindings for MPI_Pcontrol

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Apr 15 2013, Bill Long wrote:
>
>On 4/15/13 4:38 PM, Schulz, Martin wrote:
>> As a first simple approach, this could be done with
>>
>> MPI_Pcontrol_new(MPI_Info info)
>
>The original question seemed specific to the Fortran interface for 
>MPI_PCONTROL.  Would it be possible to keep the C interface, either as 
>is or modified as suggested above, but delete the Fortran interface for 
>this routine?  That solves the immediate issue.
>
>I would argue that the few people who use this routine are "expert 
>users" who would have little trouble writing their own MY_PCONTROL, 
>written in C but callable from Fortran that had whatever interoperable 
>arguments were desired, and internally called the C MPI_Pcontrol 
>function.

Or not even bother with MPI_Pcontrol, because it's less hassle to
implement the whole thing from scratch and provide their own interfaces.
I agree - this isn't likely to impact more than 0.1% of users, who are
quite capable of resolving any difficulties.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.