[mpich2-dev] [mpich-discuss] Overflow in MPI_Aint

Joe Ratterman jratt at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 23 13:20:18 CDT 2009


Yes, I can get you the latest patch set soon.  The ones I normally send you
guys are built from the special SVN-import I do, so they contain far fewer
changes than the patch files that are part of our distribution.  I am
working on the 1.1.1 upgrade.  Maybe I can send the patches after I get that
working?  That will make it easier to pick out the changes we made.
Thanks,
Joe Ratterman

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> I tried to extract the code change portions from the patch you sent, but
> that doesn't seem to be easy (the patch seems to show many changes to the
> docs and other such files which have not changed for a long time). Is there
> a way for me to get the code changes, either from this patch, or by
> exporting from some git branch?
>
>  -- Pavan
>
>
> On 07/21/2009 03:38 PM, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>
>> Joe,
>>
>>  There are a number of MPI_Aint changes that are not in 1.1.  For example,
>>> there is a block of changes in configure.in that relates to this, and it
>>> is only in the BGP version.
>>>
>>
>> I'm shifting this part of the discussion to mpich2-dev, since it's more
>> developer oriented.
>>
>> In the top-level configure, the MPIR_Pint stuff should be in 1.1.1. With
>> respect to the MPI_OFFSET_TYPE part, is there a need for this? This is
>> cross-compile safe, as far as I can tell (there have been some cleanups in
>> the trunk, but this part should be correct even in 1.1). Could you explain
>> this a bit more?
>>
>> With respect to the rest of the patch, a lot of it seems to be based on:
>>
>> 1. git-svn differences (e.g., .gitignore files).
>>
>> 2. variables that are automatically filled in by svn (e.g., $Revision$).
>>
>> 3. changes in the test suite.
>>
>> Apart from these, I do see a few more changes that need to be integrated.
>> The dcmfd changes should be easy enough to integrate. I'll look into the
>> top-level changes as well.
>>
>>  -- Pavan
>>
>>
> --
> Pavan Balaji
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
>
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