Re: Comments on Chapter 10 (I/O)
Albert Cheng (acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:52:51 -0500
At 09:43 PM 4/14/97 -0700, Bill Nitzberg wrote:
>> P240-L9: didn't we decide to call the canonical representation
>> ``external'' instead of ``external32'' since there is only one now (if
>> this is the case all occurrences of ``external32'' should be replaced
>> with ``external''.
>
>My memory fails me here, but you are not the first
>to suggest this change... (This is an easy change to make later too.)
>
>What do others remember?
External32 and External64 were proposed. Only External32 was voted in
and some suggested to just call it External. No one objected (so, was
that a yes?) External32 is more concise since it is really suited for
32 bits machines (demanding all 64 bit machines to always store MPI_REAL
in 32 bits floats is unreasonable, for example.) It also gives possible
future additions of External64 *if* External32 is well accepted.