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

[Dave Goodell]

On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:30 PM CDT, "Rob Latham" <robl at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.

FWIW, you may have some of these commits already if you're up to 1.5 already:

----8<----
% for c in fec9f2 064194 d8eec5 ; do git describe --contains $c ; done
v1.5~62
v1.5~57
v3.0.3~53
----8<----

-Dave