[mpiwg-p2p] Errata to MPI-3.0 and MPI-3.1 about MPI_WAIT

Mon Dec 28 10:17:50 CST 2015

> Looking at the commit again, it actually includes updating the errata document
> as well. It’s possible that the PDF on the website didn’t get updated for some
> reason.

Thank you for all the help. 
Yes, the only small missing point since June 2015 is that current 
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/blob/mpi-3.x/errata/errata-31.tex
is not compiled and stored at
http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-3.1/errata-31.pdf

Best regards
Rolf

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bland, Wesley" <wesley.bland at intel.com>
> To: "Rolf Rabenseifner" <rabenseifner at hlrs.de>
> Cc: "MPI WG Point To Point Communications working group" <mpiwg-p2p at lists.mpi-forum.org>, "Jeff Squyres"
> <jsquyres at cisco.com>, "Bill Gropp" <wgropp at uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 4:50:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [mpiwg-p2p] Errata to MPI-3.0 and MPI-3.1 about MPI_WAIT

> Looking at the commit again, it actually includes updating the errata document
> as well. It’s possible that the PDF on the website didn’t get updated for some
> reason.
> 
>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Bland, Wesley <wesley.bland at intel.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've three small problems with your answer:
>>> 
>>> 1. Your webpage is unreadable for me:
>>>> https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/commit/9ddd672c28c86a2abaa8fcac6bdabe675983dd79
>>> 
>>>  This may be solved by Jeff - my github account is
>>>  RolfRabenseifner or rabenseifner at hlrs.de
>> 
>> That one is easy. I’ve taken care of it. You should have an invitation in your
>> email now.
>> 
>>>> And the fix has been committed:
>>> 2. Does "committed" means that it is voted in
>>>  - by simple Erratum allowed by chapter committee
>>>  - or by a Forum vote?
>> 
>> The commit wasn’t actually mine, it was Bill’s. I believe he did this to
>> correctly implement the ticket that had already been voted on.
>> 
>>> 3. This erratum is not visible on
>>>  http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-3.1/errata-31.pdf
>>>  - not as committed errata
>>>  - nor as pending errata
>>> 
>>>  Did you forwared it somehow to Bill Gropp
>>>  who edits errata-31.tex ?
>> 
>> Again, it was Bill who did this (and who will be accepting all commits per his
>> job as the editor). No one else should be committing directly to the document,
>> but should contribute through pull requests (notes/examples/workflows on the
>> wiki). If there’s something missing in the errata document, we/Bill can fix
>> that too.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Wesley
>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> Rolf
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Bland, Wesley" <wesley.bland at intel.com>
>>>> To: "MPI WG Point To Point Communications working group"
>>>> <mpiwg-p2p at lists.mpi-forum.org>
>>>> Cc: "Comments on the MPI Standard" <mpi-comments at lists.mpi-forum.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 3:01:21 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [mpiwg-p2p] Errata to MPI-3.0 and MPI-3.1 about MPI_WAIT
>>> 
>>>> And the fix has been committed:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/commit/9ddd672c28c86a2abaa8fcac6bdabe675983dd79
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Thakur, Rajeev <thakur at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> This was reported before. See
>>>>> http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mpiwg-p2p/2015/06/0122.php
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rajeev
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 5:50 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dear pt-2-pt WG and all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In the description of MPI_WAIT,
>>>>>> MPI-3.1 page 53 line 24-25 and
>>>>>> MPI-3.0 page 53 line 27-28 reads
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any other type of request is
>>>>>> and the request handle is set to MPI_REQUEST_NULL.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> but it should read
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any other type of request is deallocated
>>>>>> and the request handle is set to MPI_REQUEST_NULL.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This corrected text was voted into MPI-3.0 through ticket 321.
>>>>>> The missing "deallocated" is a "typo" probably during
>>>>>> the implementation of this ticket before MPI-3.0 was published.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ticket 321:
>>>>>> https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/321
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/attachment/ticket/321/ticket321.pdf
>>>>>> page 54, lines 14-18.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is a request for an erratum for MPI-3.1,
>>>>>> which also applies to MPI-3.0.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Rolf
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
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>>> University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
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-- 
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner at hlrs.de
High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . . . . (Office: Room 1.307)