Re: C++

Eric Salo (salo@sgi.com)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:04:40 -0500

> Unless there's strong
> feeling otherwise, I'd like to add a sentence or two in the bindings
> chapter that says that == and != are not defined on MPI::Status objects.
> OR, if people strongly want it, I'd like to say that == and != *only*
> compare the three "public" pieces of information.

Either way works for me. If we go with the first option, we can always relax
the restriction later if and when anyone complains.

> 2. The name Comm::Get_topo should change -- it is virtual, and compilers
> generate warnings that it is masked by Graphcomm::Get_topo. So the name
> Comm::Get_topo should change to Comm::Get_topo_type.

'type' is bad, let's try to reserve that for datatypes. Maybe get_topo_kind?
No, wait, we use 'kind' for something else as well. Hmm...how about
get_topology?

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Eric Salo      Silicon Graphics      salo@sgi.com