[mpiwg-hybridpm] Changes to the EI chapter

[Jeff Hammond]

I disagree.  The point here is that an implementation that documents
its complete lack of support for threads is allowed to prohibit the
use of threads in an MPI program that uses it.

As the MPI Forum cowardly refuses to assume threads exist, this is a
natural and necessary consequence.  I fully support that MPI Forum
requiring implementations to acknowledge the existence of threads, but
this has not happened.

Jeff

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Thanks.  Jim/Jeff/Aurelien?
>
>> On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:29 PM, Daniel Holmes <dholmes at epcc.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that this sentence should not be in the standard.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
>>
>> On 03/03/2015 14:24, Balaji, Pavan wrote:
>>> The Forum was not entirely happy with the chapter committee change on the EI chapter.  Specifically, the following sentence that was added into the pdf should be removed:
>>>
>>> "Implementations that do not support threads are not required to support the calling of these functions from threads."
>>>
>>> This is in direct contradiction to the fact that the mentioned functions should work correctly without knowing whether threads are there or not.  I plan to remove it.  Please let me know what you think.
>>>
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