Re: [Libmesh-devel] MPI_CHAR and mesh_refinement.C

2007-11-14 Thread Roy Stogner
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Benjamin Kirk wrote: > Just a heads up, there are a number of places in mesh_refinement.C and > parallel.h where MPI_CHAR is used for collective operations with > MPI_MIN/MPI_MAX operators. > > Unfortunately, MPI does not mandate that MPI_MIN/MPI_MAX work for char data > types

[Libmesh-devel] MPI_CHAR and mesh_refinement.C

2007-11-14 Thread Benjamin Kirk
Just a heads up, there are a number of places in mesh_refinement.C and parallel.h where MPI_CHAR is used for collective operations with MPI_MIN/MPI_MAX operators. Unfortunately, MPI does not mandate that MPI_MIN/MPI_MAX work for char data types. This has bitten me in the past with LAM, and it loo