[mpich-discuss] MPI_Address()

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/11/2014 08:51 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
> There are a whole bunch of such functions that were deprecated in MPI 2.0 (in 1997) and removed in MPI 3.0 (in 2012). We discussed whether to keep or remove them in MPICH, and decided to keep them so as not to gratuitously break user codes that still use the old functions.
> 
> Rajeev

Ah, okay.  It's a little curious that their interfaces definitions were
updated with the const additions of MPI-3, but I suppose that leads to a
compiler warning at most.

Orion

> 
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>
>  wrote:
> 
>> MPI_Address() was removed from the MPI API in the MPI-3 specification so
>> it should be removed from mpich's mpi.h as well.  Still present in 3.1
>> and current repository.
>>
>> - Orion
>>
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