[mpich-discuss] Reduction with MPI_CHAR

[Zhang, Junchao]

MPI 3.1 Chapter 5.9.3 reads "MPI_CHAR, MPI_WCHAR, and MPI_CHARACTER (which represent printable characters) cannot be used in reduction operations". But the following code with MPICH does not abort.

#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  char a ='A',b;
  MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
  if(MPI_Allreduce(&a,&b,1,MPI_CHAR,MPI_SUM,MPI_COMM_WORLD)) abort();
  MPI_Finalize();
}
--Junchao Zhang
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