[mpich-discuss] Compiling shared libraries with Fortran 77 compiler and unexpected option

[Thomas Jahns]

Hello Dave,

On 09/07/2011 04:47 PM, Dave Goodell wrote:
> The call to the fortran init routine happens in MPIR_Init_thread, which is a
> function that is called by both MPI_Init and MPI_Init_thread to actually do
> the work of initializing the MPI library.
> 
> I don't think you can separate the setbotf object from the main MPI library
> as you are attempting to do.  The MPI library must be able to obtain the
> addresses of the fortran common block variables or the Fortran bindings
> simply will not work correctly.

but obtaining the addresses can be emulated from C, cfortran.h[1] has this.

Regards, Thomas

[1] http://www-zeus.desy.de/~burow/cfortran/
iii) Using C to manipulate FORTRAN COMMON BLOCKS
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