George, I will revisit this. if I added const modifier when not required by the standard, this was not intentional, this was a mistake.
thanks for the report Gilles On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote: > Gilles, > > Your commit 6e6a3e96 is only partially correct. There is no point arguing > about the correctness of the const keyword for the send buffer. I can also > understand your willingness to diverge from the MPI standard in order to > fix the interface for irecv_init. But there is definitively no reason to > have const for: > - the receive buffer of any receive functions > - the free buffer (mca_allocator_*_free) > > Please revise you patch. > > Thanks, > George. > >