On Feb 3, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the library does not incorporate the function
> of MPI_Type_commit into MPI_Type_contiguous and the other type
> conntructors?
Mainly because the MPI standard says that that is the way it has to be.
Check out MPI-1:3.12.4:
"A datatype object has to be committed before it can be used in a
communication..."
I confess that I don't remember the rationale for why this is so,
however.
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