Re: freeing error code, classes, strings
John May (johnmay@llnl.gov)
Fri, 16 May 1997 17:46:38 -0700
Steve Huss-Lederman writes:
> The current text allows one to create new error codes, classes, and
> strings. However, one cannot free these. These will use limited MPI
> resources. One idea I have is not to have free functions but note
> that associating an NULL string makes the extra space very small.
> Here we would not allow one to remove (free) the codes and classes.
> The other way I see is to have free functions. Any thoughts or other
> ideas?
As a point of information, Linda has noticed that the datarep
conveters in the I/O chapter have the same problem: you can
create them but you can't remove them. If you decide to do
something about this for error codes, we should do the same
for converters.
John