Re: Comment on new INTENT paragraph

Eric Salo (salo@cray.com)
Tue, 13 May 1997 17:51:39 GMT

> Does anyone argue that the MPI Standard saying the argument to MPI_Start
> is an INOUT rules out an MPI implementation choosing to provide the
> function prototype:

I think that in general, implementations can assign const arguments
wherever they please because it does not impact the applications at all.
Certain arguments would of course be very silly, such as the buffer
passed to MPI_RECV...

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Eric Salo      Silicon Graphics      salo@sgi.com