Your comments associated with page 251 are in fact relative to page 254.
And I could not locate the next comments. You may want to check page and
line numbers of all comments started on page 251 (which is in fact page
254).
Jean-Pierre
johnmay @ llnl.gov
06/24/97 03:28 PM
To: mpi-core @ mcs.anl.gov
cc: (bcc: Jean-Pierre Prost/Watson/IBM Research)
Subject: more MPI-2 corrections
219/38 true/false info values are called "logical" here, but 44/5
defines such values as being "boolean"
223/34 word "and" would look better than "&"
226/32 Rolf asks for rationale here. It's still in the document
at 258/20, where it also makes sense.
238/15 change to "the call might return only after..."
246/24 Not sure what "increased interoperability" means here,
especially wrt "full interoperability." Also, comma
shouldn't join these clauses as they are. How about
"MPI guarantees full interoperability within a single
MPI environment, and it also supports interoperability
outside ..."
247/9 Sounds like "typing information" has "desires". Maybe
drop "not only desired but also well-".
247/20 Further correction on item Rajeev noted:
Data reps are specified when setting views, not when
opening or creating files files. Also, this could be
interpreted as saying that all processes in running
a given app need to specify the same view, which is
already required. I think the point of this advice
is that the reading process and writing process need
to specifying the same data rep. So: "MPI is not
guaranteed to retain knowledge of what data
representation was used when a file is written.
Therefore, an MPI application reading a file is
responsible for ensuring that it uses the same
data representation that was used to write the file."
251/22 funny line break after (
251/28 I'm not sure what the restriction about byte alignment
for all types means. The user has no control over the
alignment in the file, and buftype controls the alignment
in memory. Is this trying to say that data in the
intermediate buffer has to be read and written
contiguously?
251/30 omit comma and add "to": "routines or to free"
252/45 Are these conditions ANDed or ORed? These conditions
are not clear to me.
255/28 change "which" to "that"
255/5 "
255/12 "