Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: stellner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Georg Stellner)
Subject: Re: PvmDataInPlace + PvmDataRaw
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: 13 Jul 1995 16:58:03 GMT
Message-ID: <3u3jar$l85@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>


In article <DBnvJq.M6z@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, mmuschol@hermes.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Matthias Muscholl) writes:
|> 
|> Hi,
|> 
|> is the parameter ENCODING (e.g. pvm_initsend) a bit field, 
|> so you can use in fact the following encoding methods
|> 
|> 	PvmDataDefault			0
|> 	PvmDataRaw			1
|> 	PvmDataInPlace + PvmDataDefault 2
|> 	PvmDataInPlace + PvmDataRaw	3
|> 
|> If not, will PvmDataInPlace use XDR encoding?
Although the values of the various encodings might suggest that
you can combine them, this is not the case. And as far as
PvmDataInPlace is concerned, it implies PvmDataRaw. So there is
no XDR encoding possible.

Cheers, Georg

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