[MPIWG Fortran] Data type of F08 subarray

[Junchao Zhang]

p626 of MPI-3.0 gives such an example


REAL s(100), r(100)
CALL MPI_Isend(s(1:100:5), 3, MPI_REAL, ..., rq, ierror)

All nonblocking MPI functions behave as if the user-specified elements of
choice buffers are copied to a contiguous scratch buffer in the MPI runtime
environment. All datatype descriptions (in the example above, “3,
MPI_REAL”) read and store data from and to this virtual contiguous scratch
buffer ...

Here,  data type of s(100) match with MPI_REAL, so everything is fine.  But
I want to know if MPI permits mismatched types, for example, can s(100) be
an integer array?  If the answer is no, then compilers can not detect this
error ; if yes, then it is hard to implement that. To avoid memory copying
to a scratch buffer, I want to use MPI datatypes. But if I have two types,
one is given by the choice buffer itself, the other is given by the
MPI_Datatype argument,  how could I do that?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

--Junchao Zhang
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