Re: [mpi-21] ABI (was: Call for MPI 2.2 and 3.0...)

[William Gropp <gropp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because this is a significant flaw in the standard, implementations will and do strive to work around it.  Of course, any workaround is non-portable because it will be non-compliant.  For example, an implementation may have the option to not define these in C++ in case you want to use stdio.h .  

Bill

On Dec 6, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote:

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:30:43AM +0100, Dries Kimpe wrote:

One example of compile-time problems is the issue with SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR,

SEEK_END and the MPI C++ bindings.

Is this a place where MPI implementations are different? Yes, a bug in

the standard, but no, not a source of unportability when moving to a

different MPI implementation.

-- greg

William Gropp

Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign