provided by the receive call that set the status variable. (As explained in Section 3.12.5 in the MPI-1 Standard, "Use of General Datatypes in Communication," MPI_Get_count may, in certain situations, return the value MPI_UNDEFINED.)
The datatype argument is passed to MPI_Get_count to improve performance. A message might be received without counting the number of elements it contains, and the count value is often not needed. Also, this allows the same function to be used after a call to MPI_Probe.
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If the size of the datatype is zero, this routine will return a count of
parameter, an MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE exception is invoked.
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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.
called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.
