On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Pascal Deveze wrote:

This is due to the interface defined for MPI_File_write that specifies an integer for the length. The positive value of an integer are coded in hexadecimal from 0000 0000 to 7FFF FFF and negative values are coded from 8000 0000 to FFFF FFFF.
(7FFF FFFF is exactly 2^31-1).

Thanks for the explanation. Then this should be updated in the spec no...?

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