openmpi/ompi/mpi/man/man3/MPI_Attr_put.3

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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_Attr_put 3OpenMPI "September 2006" "Open MPI 1.2" " "
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Attr_put\fP \- Stores attribute value associated with a key -- use of this routine is deprecated.

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Attr_put(MPI_Comm \fIcomm\fP, int\fI keyval\fP, void\fI *attribute_val\fP)

.SH Fortran Syntax
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INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_ATTR_PUT(\fICOMM\fP,\fI KEYVAL\fP, \fIATTRIBUTE_VAL\fP,\fI IERROR\fP)
	INTEGER	\fICOMM\fP,\fI KEYVAL\fP,\fI ATTRIBUTE_VAL\fP,\fI IERROR


.SH INPUT PARAMETERS
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.TP 1i
comm
Communicator to which attribute will be attached (handle).
.TP 1i
keyval
Key value, as returned by MPI_KEYVAL_CREATE (integer).
.TP 1i
attribute_val
Attribute value.

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer). 

.SH DESCRIPTION
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Note that use of this routine is \fIdeprecated\fP as of MPI-2. Please use MPI_Comm_set_attr instead. 
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This deprecated routine is not available in C++. 
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MPI_Attr_put stores the stipulated attribute value attribute_val for subsequent retrieval by MPI_Attr_get. If the value is already present, then the outcome is as if MPI_Attr_delete was first called to delete the previous value (and the callback function delete_fn was executed), and a new value was next stored. The call is erroneous if there is no key with value keyval; in particular MPI_KEYVAL_INVALID is an erroneous key value. The call will fail if the delete_fn function returned an error code other than MPI_SUCCESS.

.SH NOTES
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Values of the permanent attributes MPI_TAG_UB, MPI_HOST,
MPI_IO, and MPI_WTIME_IS_GLOBAL may not be changed.
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The type of the attribute value depends on whether C or Fortran is being used. In C, an attribute value is a pointer (void *); in Fortran, it is a single integer (not a pointer, since Fortran has no pointers and there are systems for which a pointer does not fit in an integer, e.g., any  32-bit address system that uses 64 bits for Fortran DOUBLE PRECISION).
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If an attribute is already present, the delete function (specified when the corresponding keyval was created) will be called.

.SH ERRORS
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.
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Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
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.  

.SH SEE ALSO
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MPI_Comm_set_attr
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