New issue: MPI::Datatype Set_attr & Set_name

["Richard Treumann" <treumann@us.ibm.com>]

The MPI C++ bindings state that the predefined datatypes have form:

const MPI::Datatype MPI::CHAR(MPI_CHAR)

But making predefined MPI_Datatypes "const" has the effect of preventing
either:
INT::Set_attr( key, attribute) or INT::Set_name( string );      from
working.

Page 179:5-8 says that "default" names on communicators like MPI_COMM_WORLD
can be replaced and page 180:19-21 refers to "default" names on predefined
datatypes.  I interpret this as allowing "default" names on predefined
datatypes to also be replaced.

I see no reason to prohibit either of the following:

INT::Set_attr( key, attribute) or INT::Set_name( string );

I am not a C++ expert so fire away if I am missing something important.
Based on what I see though, I suggest eliminating "const" from the
predefined datatype declarations.

            Dick

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