[MPIWG Fortran] Provide Fortran datatypes if Fortran bindings not provided?

[Bill Long]

On Feb 18, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:

> From MPI 3.1, page 674:
> 
> "If an accompanying C++ compiler is missing, then the MPI datatypes in this table are not defined."
> 
> Please tell me why we want to do something different for Fortran.

I agree that this is a good point.   Although an increasingly strange one in the C++ case since the C and C++ compilers are often the identical same compiler these days.  The choice of cc or CC just sets a different mode internally.  

Cheers,
Bill

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