Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r15533

2007-07-20 Thread Ralph Castain
Thanks - makes sense! Appreciate the explanation - should have looked more closely that early in the morning before asking. Definitely a "2-cups of coffee" question... :-) On 7/20/07 9:15 AM, "George Bosilca" wrote: > The problem started with the compiler complaining about using a non > initial

Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r15533

2007-07-20 Thread George Bosilca
The problem started with the compiler complaining about using a non initialized variable. When I looked into the code, I just planned to initialize it with some default value to make the compiler stop complaining. But then I realize that all the ifs between the moment where this buffer get

Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r15533

2007-07-20 Thread Ralph Castain
My apologies - I intended to address this solely to George and missed that it replied to the list. Too early in the morning... On 7/20/07 5:32 AM, "Ralph Castain" wrote: > I guess I really don't understand this change. How is it better that I > *always* malloc a buffer that I might never use, j

Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r15533

2007-07-20 Thread Ralph Castain
I guess I really don't understand this change. How is it better that I *always* malloc a buffer that I might never use, just so I can *always* release it - versus *only* malloc'ing and releasing a buffer when I know I need it?? I don't really care, but this seems kinda wasteful and I would like to