Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com (Eric Salo)
Subject: Re: MPI_Type_count()
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: 22 May 1996 19:38:40 GMT
Message-ID: <4nvqg0$i0e@murrow.corp.sgi.com>

> I've just discovered that MPI_Type_count(), listed in the v1.0
> standard, does not exist in the v1.1 standard of June 95.
> 
> Could someone please point me to the rational behind the removal and
> offer any suggestions for an equivalent?

As I recall, the reasons for voting it out were (a) no one could agree on
what it was really supposed to do, and (b) no one used it. At least, those
were the official reasons; the *real* reason was to lower the total number
of MPI functions from 9 bits (129) to 8 bits (128).

Eric Salo         Silicon Graphics Inc.             "Do you know what the
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