[MPIWG Fortran] Type of MPI_Status

[Bill Long]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> So what you're saying is that users will not be able to use "-i8" or
> equivalent when building OpenMPI?  That is quite common despite being
> totally evil.

I completely agree it is both common and evil.  But it is the real world.  Typically, the reason is to make REAL 64-bit, but to stay clean with Fortran rules you need to make INTEGER 64-bit as well. Hence compiler switches to set the default to 64-bits.  

Cheers,
Bill

> 
> Jeff

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