[MPIWG Fortran] Assumed-size array in MPI3

[Bill Long]

I agree with Steve.  In these sorts of calls the actual size of the array is available from somewhere else - either another argument or information in the communicator.  This is the common situation when calling C.

Cheers,
Bill


On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Junchao Zhang <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>   I read a Fortran textbook, which says "Assumed-size dummy arrays are a holdover from earlier versions of Fortran. They should never be used in any new programs".
>   But I find MPI3 has interfaces like
> MPI_Alltoallv(sendbuf, sendcounts, sdispls, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcounts, rdispls, recvtype, comm, ierror)
>  ...
>  INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: sendcounts(*), sdispls(*), recvcounts(*), rdispls(*)
>  ...
> 
>   I was wondering why MPI3 still uses it.
>   Thanks.
> 
> --Junchao Zhang
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