[MPIWG Fortran] What is BIND(C)?

[Junchao Zhang]

Hi, Jeff,
   How can I get a MPI-3 spec with the errata merged? So that I can easily
found which BIND(C)'s are left.
   Thanks.


--Junchao Zhang


On Wed, 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).
>
>
>
> 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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