From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Dec 8 19:48:02 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 20A27C178E5; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:48:02 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from nspiron-1.llnl.gov (nspiron-1.llnl.gov [128.115.41.81]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C91C178E4 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:48:00 +0100 (CET) X-Attachments: None Received: from cyrus2.llnl.gov ([128.15.97.105]) by nspiron-1.llnl.gov with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2008 10:47:59 -0800 From: Aleksandar Donev Organization: LLNL To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3764) Response on the TR29113 draft N1761 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:47:59 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20081207203535.92039C178D6@www2.open-std.org> <20081208171349.2CAD1C178E4@www2.open-std.org> <20081208184041.89C0DC178E4@www2.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20081208184041.89C0DC178E4@www2.open-std.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812081047.59750.donev1@llnl.gov> Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Monday 08 December 2008 10:40, Reinhold Bader wrote: > Note that I'm not yet sure the MPI Forum is going to swallow this > since the MPI vendors apparently don't want to rewrite their whole > infrastructure to use descriptors ... even though it provides the > technically better solution. This was not the intent. We have "TYPE(*), DIMENSION(*)" intended for the style of interfaces MPI uses (passing an address for a buffer). Perhaps this is not done right, and needs to be fixed as you suggest, but it is (somewhat) orthogonal to the issue of descriptors. Best, Aleks