I would assume you build MPI correctly with ifort?

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Prentice Bisbal <prent...@ias.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > I thought the error was this:
> >
> > $ mpif90 -o simplex simplexmain579m.for simplexsubs579
> > /usr/local/openmpi-1.2.8/intel-11/x86_64/include/mpif-config.h(88):
> > error #6406: Conflicting attributes or multiple declaration of name.
> > [MPI_STATUS_SIZE]
> >      parameter (MPI_STATUS_SIZE=5)
> > -----------------^
> > simplexmain579m.for(147): error #6591: An automatic object is invalid in
> > a main program.   [ISTATUS]
> >        integer ierr,istatus(MPI_STATUS_SIZE)
> > ---------------------^
> >
> > which seems to only show the definition in mpif-config.h (which is an
> internal OMPI file).  I could be mis-interpreting those compiler messages,
> though...
> >
> > Off-the-wall guess here: is the program doing both "use mpi" *and*
> "include mpif.h" in the same subroutine...?
>
> Jeff,
>
> I suspected that and checked for it earlier. I just double-checked, and
> that is not the problem. Out of the two source files, 'include mpif.h'
> appears once, and 'use mpi' does not appear at all. I'm beginning to
> suspect it is the compiler that is the problem. I'm using ifort 11.1.
> It's not the latest version, but it's only about 1 year old.
>
> $ ifort --version
> ifort (IFORT) 11.1 20100203
> Copyright (C) 1985-2010 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> --
> Prentice
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Tim Prince wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/23/2011 8:27 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> >>> Jeff Squyres wrote:
> >>>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Tim Prince wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> I agree with your logic, but the problem is where the code
> containing
> >>>>>> the error is coming from - it's comping from a header files that's a
> >>>>>> part of Open MPI, which makes me think this is a cmpiler error,
> since
> >>>>>> I'm sure there are plenty of people using the same header file. in
> their
> >>>>>> code.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Are you certain that they all find it necessary to re-define
> identifiers from that header file, rather than picking parameter names which
> don't conflict?
> >>>> Without seeing the code, it sounds like Tim might be right: someone is
> trying to re-define the MPI_STATUS_SIZE parameter that is being defined by
> OMPI's mpif-config.h header file.  Regardless of include file/initialization
> ordering (i.e., regardless of whether mpif-config.h is the first or Nth
> entity to try to set this parameter), user code should never set this
> parameter value.
> >>>>
> >>>> Or any symbol that begins with MPI_, for that matter.  The entire
> "MPI_" namespace is reserved for MPI.
> >>>>
> >>> I understand that, and I checked the code to make sure the programmer
> >>> didn't do anything stupid like that.
> >>>
> >>> The entire code is only a few hundred lines in two different files. In
> >>> the entire program, there is only 1 include statement:
> >>>
> >>> include 'mpif.h'
> >>>
> >>> and MPI_STATUS_SIZE appears only once:
> >>>
> >>> integer ierr,istatus(MPI_STATUS_SIZE)
> >>>
> >>> I have limited knowledge of Fortran programming, but based on this, I
> >>> don't see how MPI_STATUS_SIZE could be getting overwritten.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Earlier, you showed a preceding PARAMETER declaration setting a new
> value for that name, which would be required to make use of it in this
> context.  Apparently, you intend to support only compilers which violate the
> Fortran standard by supporting a separate name space for PARAMETER
> identifiers, so that you can violate the MPI standard by using MPI_
> identifiers in a manner which I believe is called shadowing in C.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim Prince
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