Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: treumann@aix.kingston.ibm.com (Dick Treumann)
Subject: MPI_Type_count
Organization: IBM Corporation, Kingston NY
Date: 16 Dec 1994 22:13:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Dec16.170949@aix.kingston.ibm.com>

Page 69 of the Standard offers MPI_Type_count with the one line
explanation: Returns the number of "top-level" entries in the
datatype.  A knowledgable source tells me this amounts to returning
the value the "count" parameter had in the constructor call which
created the type.

Can anyone give me an explanation or example of how this
might be useful?

Thanks -- Dick Treumann

