[MPIWG Fortran] ticket 351

[Jeff Hammond]

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

Of course.

> 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.

Did you read the first paragraph of the ticket?  I motivate this by
analogy to C, where we process argc+argv despite the fact that C/C++
programs provide these already.

Just because it works for you, does not mean it is guaranteed to work.
 An environment where argc/argv are taken w.r.t.
mpirun/mpiexec/aprun/runjob/etc. and not the application binary will
give the user a result that depends on the launch context: ./bin and
mpirun -n 2 ./bin will produce different results.

Jeff

> 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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