[MPIWG Fortran] MPI_SIZEOF: redux

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

On Jun 9, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which Fortran compiler vendors that do not currently implement this
> intrinsic are going to be swayed by MPI-4 deprecations to implement
> it?

I have no idea; I'm not intimately familiar with Fortran compiler devs.  I'm also not aware of which compilers don't already support it.

Does anyone know?

>> And I think we'd give plenty of warning to compiler vendors (i.e., this would be MPI-4).  And also have no plan to actually remove MPI_SIZEOF.
> 
> A statement like this removes all of the teeth associated with the
> prior statement about pressuring vendors to implement.

Meh.

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