Re: ext. chapter
Rajeev Thakur (thakur@mcs.anl.gov)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:13:01 -0600
> I probably should have added text (which I will do now) to make it
> very clear that MPI_START is generalized to accept non-persistent
> generalized requests. This was implicit in the fact it can be used,
> but I will make it very clear. The binding does not change since
> generalized requests are now of type MPI_Request so we can make this
> change to start under the covers.
>
> Steve
But then how would the implementation know if the user intends it to
be persistent or nonpersistent? If MPI_Start has to be used for
nonpersistent, one would still need to use MPI_Meta_request_init
before it, because MPI_Start takes "request" as argument, not
"meta_request".
Rajeev