The proposal was sent to the mpi-external group, with a cc: mpi-io as a
heads-up.
I'd be happy to submit it in LaTeX. I'll try to get it out tomorrow.
Briefly, it's relation to the other proposals published in the 4/22 MPI2
draft:
At the last meeting of the MPI external group ...
Consenses was reached on using Table I as the "exposed" format.
Consenses was also reached on the MPI_TYPE_ENVELOPE() and
MPI_TYPE_CONTENTS() functions.
The remaining "datatype" function proposals were withdrawn or
discarded.
An effort by Marc Snir in the miscellany group was discussed.
... Table I and the two functions can now go before the full Forum.
I believe my present proposal represents consenses opinion on
functionality, with some of my own ideas added on bindings.
I'm certainly open to more input and discussion.
On Tue, 21 May 1996, Rusty Lusk wrote:
> I hope you can soon submet this proposal in the LaTeX format used for
> the draft. Meanwhile I will try to include it in some form. Can you explain
> its relationship to the proposal for sending datatypes that has been discussed
> so far? And doesn't this really belong to the external interfaces chapter?
>
> Regards,
> Rusty
>