From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Feb  2 23:17:21 2001
Subject: Re: MPI
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Alex Verstak <averstak at vt dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:17:14 -0600

On  2-Feb-2001, Alex Verstak <averstak at vt dot edu> 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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