[petsc-dev] Detecting MPI_C_DOUBLE_COMPLEX when clanguage!='C'

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:15, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Of course don't fix it. Who do these guys work for, Sandia?
>
>
> They could fix it as an extension in MPICH2, but it would have to be added
> to the standard for us to rely on it. Considering that we still can't use
> anything past MPI-1.1, we won't be able to remove the hacks for a long
> time. This is not to say that it isn't worth fixing, just that your
> daughter will be in college by the time the fix can be assumed by callers.
>

MPICH used to lead by just doing good, useful things. The embarrassed
standards committee
would then adopt them. Now this is reversed?

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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