[Mpi3-rma] Fwd: [Mpi-comments] Freeing memory allocated in MPI_WIN_ALLOCATE_SHARED

[Jeff Hammond]

Okay, I thought it might do that but despite having a paper copy of
the MPI-3 RMA chapter three feet from me at the time, I was too lazy
to look it up.

Thanks for the clarification.

Jeff

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Jim Dinan <dinan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> MPI_Win_free also frees memory allocated by MPI_Win_allocate.
>
>  ~Jim.
>
>
> On 9/4/12 4:22 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't that be a new call (MPI_Win_free_shared) to keep the usage
>> of MPI_Win_free uniform?  MPI_Win_free doesn't deallocate the buffers
>> in any other situation, does it?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jim Dinan <dinan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> It looks like we forgot to include the text specifying that
>>> MPI_Win_allocate_shared memory is freed along with the window.
>>>
>>>   ~Jim.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:        [Mpi-comments] Freeing memory allocated in
>>> MPI_WIN_ALLOCATE_SHARED
>>> Date:   Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:49:10 +0000
>>> From:   Hubert Ritzdorf <Hubert.Ritzdorf at emea.nec.com>
>>> Reply-To:       Comments on the MPI Standard
>>> <mpi-comments at lists.mpi-forum.org>
>>> To:     mpi-comments at lists.mpi-forum.org
>>> <mpi-comments at lists.mpi-forum.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is it correct that MPI_Win_free should free the memory allocated in
>>> MPI_Win_allocate_shared ?
>>>
>>> MPI_Win_free (Page 416, Line 5-6) specifies this only for
>>> memory allocated by MPI_Win_allocate.
>>> I think that an additional reference to MPI_Win_allocate_shared is
>>> missing also on Page 420, Line 31, Page 448 Line 25, Page 609 Line 31,
>>> Page 613 Line 1, Page 614 Line 9, Page 614 Line 31.
>>>
>>> Hubert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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