[mpich-devel] external32 (was: Re: binding a new MPI type with fortran)

Rob Latham robl at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Apr 3 13:30:13 CDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 01:07:09PM -0500, Bob Cernohous wrote:
> > From: "Rob Latham" <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Once you re-sync with MPICH, this use case will work -- integer,
> > float, and double have the same size types in native and external32
> > format. 
> 
> 're=sync' meaning we get to MPICH 3.0?   or we pick up new work/fixes 
> related to ticket 1754? 

former: whenver you pull in MPICH 3.0. 

If you really really need external 32 bits right now you can cherry pick
fec9f28d0b67a8e6912b1a309b2739a2551b83d2
064194da2a8f30f52dd512693b34dad4f209497d
and
d8eec5491fa0929d43da3086230795a2fb1c6545

The meat of the work in ticket 1754 is yet to be done.

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA


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