Re: MPI

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Feb-2001, Alex Verstak <address@hidden> wrote:

| I cannot give you an example, but I can explain why they wrote
| it in the standard this way.  MPI/C is a low-level API for a
| low-level language, so this requirement is not unreasonable.

I think it is, unless you can explain what good purpose it serves to
*require* that the MPI_Init function must receive exactly the same
argv/argc that main() sees.

| Standards are not meant to create good designs;
| they merely codify the existing practice.

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
from.  Why tolerate stupid ones?

| I already explained how MPICH uses this feature.

How?  What would break if it didn't get the exact same argv/argc that
main() sees (but still did receive arguments that are useful to it)?

jwe



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