Thank you for this explanation.  I will assume that my problem here is some 
kind of memory corruption.


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From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf 
Of Tim Prince
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] EXTERNAL: Re: How could OpenMPI (or MVAPICH) affect 
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On 9/20/2011 10:50 AM, Blosch, Edwin L wrote:

> It appears to be a side effect of linkage that is able to change a 
> compute-only routine's answers.
>
> I have assumed that max/sqrt/tiny/abs might be replaced, but some other kind 
> of corruption may be going on.
>

Those intrinsics have direct instruction set translations which 
shouldn't vary from -O1 on up nor with linkage options nor be affected 
by MPI or insertion of WRITEs.

-- 
Tim Prince
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