I'm not sure what you're asking.
The entire contents of hostname[] will be sent -- from position 0 to position
(MAX_STRING_LEN-1). If there's a \0 in there, it will be sent. If the \0
occurs after that, then it won't.
Be aware that get_hostname(buf, size) will not put a \0 in the buffer if the
hostname is exactly "size" bytes. So you might want to double check that your
get_hostname() is returning a \0-terminated string.
Does that make sense?
Here's a sample I wrote to verify this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_LEN 64
static void where_null(char *ptr, int len, int rank)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
if ('\0' == ptr[i]) {
printf("Rank %d: Null found at position %d (string: %s)\n",
rank, i, ptr);
return;
}
}
printf("Rank %d: Null not found! (string: ", rank);
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) putc(ptr[i], stdout);
putc('\n', stdout);
}
int main()
{
int i;
char hostname[MAX_LEN];
char *hostname_recv_buf;
int rank, size;
MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);
MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);
gethostname(hostname, MAX_LEN - 1);
where_null(hostname, MAX_LEN, rank);
hostname_recv_buf = calloc(size * (MAX_LEN), (sizeof(char)));
MPI_Allgather(hostname, MAX_LEN, MPI_CHAR,
hostname_recv_buf, MAX_LEN, MPI_CHAR, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
for (i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
where_null(hostname_recv_buf + i * MAX_LEN, MAX_LEN, rank);
}
MPI_Finalize();
return 0;
}
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:32 AM, Gabriele Fatigati wrote:
> Dear OpenMPI,
>
> using MPI_Allgather with MPI_CHAR type, I have a doubt about null-terminated
> character. Imaging I want to spawn node names where my program is running on:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> char hostname[MAX_LEN];
>
> char*
> hostname_recv_buf=(char*)calloc(num_procs*(MAX_STRING_LEN),(sizeof(char)));
>
> MPI_Allgather(hostname, MAX_STRING_LEN, MPI_CHAR, hostname_recv_buf,
> MAX_STRING_LEN, MPI_CHAR, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
>
> Now, is the null-terminated character of each local string included? Or I
> have to send and receive in MPI_Allgather MAX_STRING_LEN+1 elements?
>
> Using Valgrind, in a subsequent simple strcmp:
>
> for( i= 0; i< num_procs; i++){
> if(strcmp(&hostname_recv_buf[MAX_STRING_LEN*i],
> local_hostname)==0){
> ... doing something....
> }
> }
>
> raise a warning:
>
> Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==19931== at 0x4A06E5C: strcmp (mc_replace_strmem.c:412)
>
> The same warning is not present if I use MAX_STRING_LEN+1 in MPI_Allgather.
>
>
> Thanks in forward.
>
> --
> Ing. Gabriele Fatigati
>
> HPC specialist
>
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>
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>
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>
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