[MPIWG Fortran] What is BIND(C)?

[Bill Long]

On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote:

> ...but be careful.  We didn't get rid of *all* the BIND(C)'s.
> 
> If you care, the most recent OMPI 1.7 and SVN trunk nightly tarballs have the most correct/most-bug-fixed implementation of the mpi_f08 module available (soon to be released as OMPI 1.7.4).  You'll need to build with a non-gfortran compiler to get the mpi_f08 module built (e.g., the Intel fortran compiler).

Really?  Intel supports type(*) and dimension(..) now?  

Cheers,
Bill

> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> 
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