A call to MPI_Wait returns when the operation identified by request is complete. If the communication object associated with this request was created by a nonblocking send or receive call, then the object is deallocated by the call to MPI_Wait and the request handle is set to MPI_REQUEST_NULL.
The call returns, in status, information on the completed operation. The content of the status object for a receive operation can be accessed as described in Section 3.2.5 of the MPI-1 Standard, "Return Status." The status object for a send operation may be queried by a call to MPI_Test_cancelled (see Section 3.8 of the MPI-1 Standard, "Probe and Cancel").
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If your application does not need to examine the \fIstatus\fP field, you can save resources by using the predefined constant MPI_STATUS_IGNORE as a special value for the \fIstatus\fP argument.
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One is allowed to call MPI_Wait with a null or inactive request argument. In this case the operation returns immediately with empty status.
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Successful return of MPI_Wait after an MPI_Ibsend implies that the user send buffer can be reused i.e., data has been sent out or copied into a buffer attached with MPI_Buffer_attach. Note that, at this point, we can no longer cancel the send (for more information, see Section 3.8 of the MPI-1 Standard, "Probe and Cancel"). If a matching receive is never posted, then the buffer cannot be freed. This runs somewhat counter to the stated goal of MPI_Cancel (always being able to free program space that was committed to the communication subsystem).
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Example: Simple usage of nonblocking operations and MPI_Wait.
Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI::Exception object.
