And I think this is horrible !
If I allocate something I expect to have to free it. Functions to
allocate and free should come in pairs, and having a use of an object
automagically free it seems most unpleasant to me.
All other MPI objects have explicit free operations. We shouldn't
have one "special" object with different behaviour.
> handle = MPI_STRING_NULL; /* handle of an empty string */
> MPI_String_add ( &handle, string); /* handle is changed */
> MPI_Spawn (... &handle, ....); /* handle is freed,
> i.e. handle == MPI_STRING_NULL */
>
> Simple things should be simply programmable.
Somehow this seems less simple to me than
MPI_Spawn(..., string, ...);
-- Jim
James Cownie
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