Re: deadlines and "XDR-like" functionalities

Richard Frost (frost@sdsc.edu)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT)

Albert,

I agree. Can you write a proposal for such a mapping?

- Richard

> I think in order to define "MPI_DATA_XDR" access mode, we need to borrow
> something from XDR (floating points are in IEEE representation, byte orders
> are in Big-Endian order), and map every MPI basic type to defined byte sizes
> and orders (like typemap). We would need to deal with alignment problems
> such as "is there any unused bytes for {int, char, int}?"
>
> =Albert
>
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