Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish)
Subject: Re: Cannot use g++?
Organization: Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:21:45 GMT
Message-ID: <FURNISH.95Jul7132146@dino.ph.utexas.edu>

In article <1995Jul6.044349.21426@uxmail.ust.hk> ma_adlum@uxmail.ust.hk (Lum Wing Fung Adrian) writes:

> Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
> From: ma_adlum@uxmail.ust.hk (Lum Wing Fung Adrian)

> Dear all,
> 	I have just read p.5 of the installation guide of the MPI.
> In line 7 to line 9, "THIS IS CURRENTLY UNSUPPORTED."  Does this 
> mean that I cannot use g++ compiler to compile the source code
> of any .c file in the examples?

Without knowing which installation guide for which of the many
versions of MPI that exist, it is quite difficult to generate a useful
response to this querry.

What I can tell you is that I personally use C++ (and g++ in
particular) on several different classes of computers with two
different implementations of MPI, on a regular basis.  

So, yes, you can definitely use C++ with MPI.

If your MPI supplier does not have a "compiler driver" for C++, nag
them.

However, you must still understand C to C++ linkage considerations.
That has nothing to do with MPI, though, so if you can do it without
MPI, you can do it with MPI.

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