This file contains man page information on special routines (such as MPI_SIZEOF) that exist only in F90, and on the F90 extended support) /*N FortranExtended Extended Fortran Support: This routine is part of the extended Fortran support, described in Sections 10.2.4 and 10.2.5 in the MPI-2 Standard. Full support for these features `cannot` be efficiently implemented within the Fortran 90 language and would require a nonportable interation with specific Fortran 90 compilers. MPICH has chosen to offer many of the features of the extended Fortran support, but there are limitations. For example, some routines may accept only scalars or one-dimensional arrays. N*/ /*D MPI_SIZEOF - Return the size of a data item Synopsis: subroutine mpi_sizeof( var, size, ierr ) var integer size, ierr Notes: This routine returns the size of a basic element, in bytes, of the item passed in the first argument. Implementation limitations: MPICH only supports scalars and one-dimensional arrays for the first parameter. Supporting higher-dimensional arrays greatly increases the size of the library and the executable without adding any new functionality. If you have a multi-dimensional array, simply pass any element to 'MPI_SIZEOF'. .N FortranExtended D*/