[O-MPI users] [Beowulf] MPI ABI

[Patrick Geoffray]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:43:15PM -0400, Patrick Geoffray wrote:
> 
> 
>>Furthermore, there is no standard binary interface in Fortran, so you 
>>cannot safely use a library compiled with one compiler and an 
>>application compiled with another.
> 
> 
> Our InfiniPath MPICH-based libraries have this solved on i386 and
> AMD64: we have a single MPI library that works with PathScale, g77,
> PGI, and Intel's Fortran compilers. So there's your existence
> proof. There were no issues other than the ones I've brought up: name
> mangling, LOGICAL, command line.

Which is exactely the problem I described: you need to do name mangling 
and all, and you need to be sure you don't forget anything, and you need 
to support it in the long run, ie supporting a future release of PGI or 
Intel compilers. Because there is no standard way of doing, you have no 
guarantee that it won't change under your feet.

Patrick
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