itaps-parallel typedef structure in iMeshP.h

[Jason Kraftcheck]

txie at scorec.rpi.edu wrote:
> (Sorry, I forgot to put the subject in last email, so I send it again. )
> 
> Hi, Karen,
> 
> In the latest version of iMeshP.h, there is one line still undefined:
> 
> #define ITAPS_DECLARE_HANDLE( NAME ) typedef struct NAME##DummyStruct *NAME
> 

What do you mean by an "undefined" line?

> 
> To make the definition be consistent within the whole group, I suggest the
> following change:
> 
>  #define ITAPS_DECLARE_HANDLE( NAME ) typedef void *NAME
> 

Why is that change "consistent with the whole group"?  How is the previous
definition not "consistent with the whole group"?

> 
> Thus, the interior implementation can be hided from iMeshP users. 

Okay, I think you are misunderstanding how this declaration works.  See:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/tstt-interface/2008/09/msg00000.html

> And we
> should also make it clear that the implementations do not have the right
> to change the iMeshP.h file.
> 

I assume that you mean that there should be no implementation-specific code
in iMeshP.h.   I think we've all assumed from the beginning that there
should be no implementation-specific code in any interface header file, as
that would break the whole interoperable interface thing.


- jason