[MPIWG Fortran] Type of MPI_Status

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Junchao Zhang <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Supporting different INTEGER and c_int 1) is useless;  2) adds code complexity; 3) adds extra runtime overhead (in MPICH implementation) even when INTEGER and c_int are the same.  I prefer stopping the support and doing configuration time check.

That's up to you.

FWIW: I don't think it's useless to support when sizeof(INTEGER) != sizeof(int); we've had specific user requests asking for exactly that.  We've had a few bugs in this support over the years -- you're right, it does add some complexity -- but have generally supported it.

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