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From: Phil Ehrens (pehrens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-04 13:19:35


Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Why do functions such as MPI_Comm_rank and MPI_Comm_size return int instead
> of unsigned int?

I have wondered about that too... though I have to say, it
certainly catches your attention when rank -32764 fails.

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