Re: deadlines and "XDR-like" functionalities

Koichi Konishi (konishi@research.nj.nec.com)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:16:52 EDT

> From: hart@nipmuc.fsl.noaa.gov (Leslie Hart)
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:07:19 -0600 (MDT)

> The following is a proposal (probably for external) that is an
> extension of Mark Snir's proposal. It would also, allow MPI I/O to
> continue to be layerable on top of MPI-2.

I am only a passer-by in this issue, but
I recently learned with a pain that gcc has "long double", and its
length is 12 bytes on ix86 machines, and I wonder how this is handled
in your naming scheme for data representation constants.

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