[mpiwg-p2p] Question on MPI_PACKED

[Joachim Protze]

Hi all,

the exception on MPI_PACKED in the type matching rules (3.3.1) suggests, 
that one side of the communication can pack/unpack the message, while 
the other side reads/writes natively.

I.e., is the following code valid MPI code?


#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
   int A[100], B[10], psize;

   for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
     A[i] = i;

   MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);
   MPI_Pack_size(1, MPI_INT, MPI_COMM_SELF, &psize);
   void *parr = malloc(psize * 10);
   int pos = 0;
   for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
     MPI_Pack(&(A[i * 10]), 1, MPI_INT, parr, psize * 10, &pos,
              MPI_COMM_SELF);
   // Send the packed data and receive a contiguous buffer
   MPI_Sendrecv(parr, pos, MPI_PACKED, 0, 42, B, 10, MPI_INT, 0, 	
                42, MPI_COMM_SELF, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);

   for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
     printf("%i\n", B[i]);
   MPI_Finalize();
}


Can the packed buffer include meta data? This would be reflected by a 
larger value in /pos/, right? Can this lead to unexpected message 
truncation?

Thanks
Joachim

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