Re: [mpi-21] Call for MPI 2.2 and 3.0 agenda items for the Jan meeting

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:02:08PM +0000, Ashley Pittman wrote:

> and Fortran doesn't have
> a ABI that allows you covers multiple compiler vendors.

PathScale successfully created a single Linux library which worked
with a bunch of Fortran compilers. It's not rocket science. I
understand that things in Windows can be considerably more difficult,
but I suspect there's a technical solution there via the fact that
DLLs are commonly supported.

For C++, while the compilers do change over time, at least the major
compilers on major platforms like Linux/i386 and Linux/x86-64 all are
emulating g++. So all you need is a library for each g++ "major.even"
version.

-- greg