[MPIWG Fortran] What is BIND(C)?

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Hello,

The BIND(C) was removed in the latest errata,
see
http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html
and
http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-3.0/errata-30.pdf
page 1 lines 21-27

Best regards
Rolf Rabenseifner

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Junchao Zhang" <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: mpiwg-fortran at lists.mpi-forum.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:42:28 PM
> Subject: [MPIWG Fortran] What is BIND(C)?
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
>   I have a naive question. MPI3 has Fortran binding in forms like
> this:
> 
> 
>       MPI_Send(buf, count, datatype, dest, tag, comm, ierror) BIND(C)
>          TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN) :: buf
>           INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: count, dest, tag
>           ...
> 
> 
>    So how to interpret BIND(C) here?  Is it to say this interface is
> interoperable with C? But I find the interface arguments are not
> interoperable, e.g., INTEGER, instead of C_INT.
>    Thank you.
> 
> --Junchao Zhang
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