[MPIWG Fortran] ticket 351

[Bill Long]

Hi Jeff, (copying the Fortran gang)

Two comments on this ticket:

1) The BIND(C) should be removed from the Fortran interfaces.  This was 
done for the other Fortran interface routines.

2) I don't really see the point of this at all.  The user can just call 
the native Fortran intrinsics directly.  Why should there be a duplicate 
version that starts with MPI_ ?  I would suggest, instead, that you just 
add a note in the spec (advice to users) point out that Fortran 
programmers can access the command line arguments using the language 
intrinsics.   Maybe someone can convince me this is not adequate, but 
I've been using those intrinsics with parallel programs for some time 
and they work just fine.

Cheers,
Bill


On 10/22/13 9:09 AM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> I will be at the Forum in December and am hoping to make progress on
> various tickets in which I am interested.
>
> Do we have enough to proceed with
> https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/351?  It seems
> straightforward to pass if the WG agrees on the change.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeff
>

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