On Jun 15, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Brian Barrett wrote:
It would be nice if the c++ compiler wrapper were
installed under mpicxx, mpiCC, and mpic++ instead of
just the latter 2.
Yeah, we can do that, no problem.
Sorry for the silly question, but is there any kind of document or
formal recommendation regarding the naming of these wrappers ?
Not really. They are traditionally mpicc, mpiCC, and mpif77 because
the comercial Unix systems traditionally named their compilers cc,
CC, and f77. LAM added mpic++ because on OS X and Windoes, mpicc and
mpiCC may be the same file. The choice of mpic++ was because it's
the C++ compiler and because GNU chose g++ as the name of their C++
compiler.
That's about it for logic. cxx is the usual way of specifying C++
when you can't use a + sign (such as variable names). I'm assuming
the request was due to something along those lines. Right now, the
following wrapper compilers are provided by Open MPI:
C: mpicc
C++: mpic++, mpicxx, mpiCC (last one is only on case-sensitive
file systems)
Fortran 77: mpif77
Fortran 90: mpif90
Make any sense?
Brian
