[MPIWG Fortran] Type of MPI_Status

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 6:09 PM, Bill Long <longb at cray.com> wrote:

>> Crap, again?  I keep forgetting which language I'm programming in.  I checked this with gfortran and it worked (as it should, but not in the way I thought it would).  That is why I originally suggested to Jeff it be
>> 
>>     KIND(1)
>> 
>> (because the literal 1 is an integer), but he asked what the heck does that mean so I came up with an example that I thought was more clear (but was actually worse).
> 
> More important, 1 is of type *default* integer, which is the requirement here. 


So -- I'm now confused.  Should I use KIND(0) or KIND(1)?  Both have been cited in this email thread.

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