Before containing the pointer to ompi_proc_t the group is composed of the
inverse vpid (the negative assumption comes from here). Thus we cannot use
the last bit, as the vpid might use it. If we shift the vpid to the left by
1, we can use the last bit as the sentinel.
George.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2
Nathan,
i am experiencing some issues and i found commit
0bf06de3f1444f469303e47752430ec9b423b33f
https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/0bf06de3f1444f469303e47752430ec9b423b33f
and the following are very likely the root cause.
i experience this on a linux sparc system only.
Per the commit