Believe it or not, this is actually one of the areas of the OMPI code base that is fairly well documented (gasp!). :-)
Check out opal/mca/base/mca_var.h for MCA vars (i.e., MPI_T control variables), and mca_pvar.h for MPI_T performance variables. On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote: > I am trying to find out how to deal with string variables. Do I have to > allocate the memory before calling mca_base_component_var_register() or > not? It seems it does a strdup() meaning it has to be free()'d while > closing the component. Looking at other occurrences of string variables > I see different usages. Sometimes it set to NULL sometimes not. Before > following a wrong example maybe someone can tell me what the correct > usage is. > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/