On Jan 21, 2015, at 11:00 AM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote: > > As I said in my previous email it is legal to use such an overlapping > datatype for send operations. Thus, the datatype engine cannot prevent one > from creating them.
Ah, right. Gotcha. > We had some degree of overlap detection at some point in the past, but the > algorithm is quadratic in time and memory with the number of datatype > entries, so the cost was prohibitive. Gotcha. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/