On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:43:51PM -0500, Aleksandar Donev wrote:
> The same goes
> for the "Fortran" binding of MPI, and a whole lot of "bindings".
You can't write a general interface to MPI using C interop, because
the types are not specified in the standard, but are
implementation-dependent. The existing Fortran77 MPI interface works
great and is included in the standard; why would you throw away
working code?
> The reasoning is simple, though maybe not agreeable to all (I am always
> willing to argue :-). The OpenGL or MPI forums designed a library meant
> to be a "C" library,
True for OpenGL, not true for MPI.
-- greg
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