[MPIWG Fortran] Type of MPI_Status

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Craig Rasmussen <rasmus at cas.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> Jeff and I had a similar conversation last week.  It is my viewpoint that
>> the MPI-3 interfaces are formal interfaces that can be adapted by an
>> implementation in a way that formally meets the specification.
>> 
>> For Open MPI I believe that Jeff will add configuration magic to check is
>> INTEGER(C_INT) and default INTEGER have the same KIND value.  This should be
>> true for 100% of the compilers.  If not, then that compiler will not be able
>> to build Open MPI.
> 
> 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 apparently did not read Craig's not closely enough.

No, what he described is not what I'm doing.  See later emails in this thread.

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