[mpich-discuss] MPI_Address()

Rajeev Thakur thakur at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Mar 12 11:48:49 CDT 2014


Added it to the ticket.
https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/ticket/2056

On Mar 12, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Michael Blocksome <blocksom at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to make the inclusion of deprecated/deleted functions in the mpi.h header configurable? 
> 
> If so, then a "strict" mpich library could be configured, compiled, and used to aid those who wish to port legacy applications to the new standard. By default, this "strict" mode would be disabled in order to preserve the current design decision. 
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> 
> Michael Blocksome
> Parallel Environment MPI Middleware Team Lead, TCEM
> POWER, x86, and Blue Gene HPC Messaging
> blocksom at us.ibm.com
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> From:        Rajeev Thakur <thakur at mcs.anl.gov> 
> To:        <discuss at mpich.org>, 
> Date:        03/11/2014 09:51 PM 
> Subject:        Re: [mpich-discuss] MPI_Address() 
> Sent by:        discuss-bounces at mpich.org 
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> 
> 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
> 
> 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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