On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Camm Maguire wrote:
>> We've actually *never* guaranteed binary compatibility between
>> releases. We just don't have the time and resources do it,
>> unfortunately. That being said, MPI applications *usually* will be ok
>> with the upgrades unless we make major changes to:
>>
>> - mpi.h
>> - the inlined C++ bindings
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What file(s) specify these?
It's all the stuff that is under $includedir/mpi2cxx/*. These things
are statically compiled/linked into the user applications. If those
change from version to version, it can break a user's app.
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{+} Jeff Squyres
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{+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/
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