[MPI3 Fortran] Fwd: [Mpi-comments] MPI 3.0: Fortran 2008 interface - issue with the LOGICAL kind

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Feb 28 2013, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>
>> Drop ALL of the BIND(C) from the functions, as they aren't currently 
>> conforming. Plain INTEGER is not guaranteed to be
>> interoperable, and nor is DOUBLE PRECISION (Wtime, Wtick). I hope to 
>> make default types more interoperable in the next standard, but
>> that hasn't even been discussed yet.
>
>That's probably the simplest. The actual implementation might even use C 
>binding in this case, iff the Fortran interface is already interopable 
>with C, e.g. integer matches "int" etc.

Yes, precisely.  Even if that were not possible, generating interface
functions automatically from the specifications isn't hard.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.