Re: MPI_STATUS_IGNORE etc.

Eric Salo (salo@kgn.ibm.com)
Mon, 19 May 1997 17:18:52 -0500

> I suggest that we eliminate MPI_STATUS_IGNORE and MPI_STATUS_IGNORE from the
> Fortran bindings, and make use of the languages "optional" feature.

I completely agree.

> We could even eliminate MPI_STATUS_IGNORE from C by forcing a varargs
> binding...

We only added the magic word to get around the problem of passing a NULL
pointer in Fortran. Since this is now a moot point, we can just following
common practice and let C programmers pass NULL.

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Eric Salo      Silicon Graphics      salo@sgi.com