On 09:06 Mon 14 May , Ilja Honkonen wrote: > Thanks, so it's a feature. A bit surprising though since usually local > variables are deallocated automatically.
Not much more surprising than an array allocated by malloc() not being automatically deallocated once the pointer dies. The datatype variable is merely a handle, Open MPI has an internal data store for each user-defines datatype. Same for requests AFAIK. Best -Andreas -- ========================================================== Andreas Schäfer HPC and Grid Computing Chair of Computer Science 3 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +49 9131 85-27910 PGP/GPG key via keyserver http://www.libgeodecomp.org ========================================================== (\___/) (+'.'+) (")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination!
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