This has been discussed previously in the MPI Forum: http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mpi-forum/2010/11/0838.php
I think it resulted in this proposal, but AFAIK it was never pushed forward by a regular attendee of the Forum: https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/wiki/ReqPPMacro -Dave On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:59 AM CDT, Jeff Squyres wrote: > I unfortunately won't be at the next Forum meeting, but you might want to ask > someone to bring it up for you. > > It might not give you exactly what you want, however, because not all > platforms have "mpicc" (or similar) wrapper compilers. I.e., to compile an > MPI application on some platforms, you just "cc ... -lmpi". Hence, there's > no way for the compiler to know whether to #define MPI or not. > > Such a macro *could* be added to mpi.h (but not Fortran), but then you > wouldn't get at least one of the use cases that you (assumedly :-) ) want: > > #if MPI > #include <mpi.h> > #endif > > > On Aug 23, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Gabriele Fatigati wrote: > >> Can I suggest to insert this macro in next MPI 3 standard? >> >> I think It's very useful. >> >> 2011/8/23 Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> >> I'm afraid not. Sorry! :-( >> >> We have the OPEN_MPI macro -- it'll be defined to 1 if you compile with Open >> MPI, but that doesn't really help your portability issue. :-\ >> >> On Aug 23, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Gabriele Fatigati wrote: >> >>> Dear OpenMPi users, >>> >>> is there some portable MPI macro to check if a code is compiled with MPI >>> compiler? Something like _OPENMP for OpenMP codes: >>> >>> #ifdef _OPENMP >>> >>> .... >>> >>> #endif >>> >>> >>> it exist? >>> >>> #ifdef MPI >>> >>> >>> .... >>> >>> #endif >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> Ing. Gabriele Fatigati >>> >>> HPC specialist >>> >>> SuperComputing Applications and Innovation Department >>> >>> Via Magnanelli 6/3, Casalecchio di Reno (BO) Italy >>> >>> www.cineca.it Tel: +39 051 6171722 >>> >>> g.fatigati [AT] cineca.it >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Squyres >> jsquy...@cisco.com >> For corporate legal information go to: >> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> >> -- >> Ing. Gabriele Fatigati >> >> HPC specialist >> >> SuperComputing Applications and Innovation Department >> >> Via Magnanelli 6/3, Casalecchio di Reno (BO) Italy >> >> www.cineca.it Tel: +39 051 6171722 >> >> g.fatigati [AT] cineca.it >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
