[MPIWG Fortran] Another MPI_SIZEOF question

[Bill Long]

On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> Same question as I asked before: Is 2003 or 2008+TS29113 required for SIZEOF?  I have no knowledge of when INTERFACE blocks were added to Fortran.

Interface blocks were added in F90.   
> 
> I'm asking this because DIMENSION(..) is *useful* to implement MPI_SIZEOF succinctly/easily, but it is not *required*.

MPI_SIZEOF is most easily written with the new features, but it is possible (tedious) to write a version without.

Cheers,
Bill


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