On May 14, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: > 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.
+1 More specifically: the MPI standard defines the behavior this way. It's not an Open MPI-specific artifact. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
