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README: Add extensive information about deleted MPI-1 syms

Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
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Jeff Squyres 2018-11-03 16:25:29 -04:00
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@ -479,6 +479,56 @@ MPI Functionality and Features
- All MPI-3 functionality is supported.
- Note that starting with Open MPI v4.0.0, prototypes for several
legacy MPI-1 symbols that were deleted in the MPI-3.0 specification
(which was published in 2012) are no longer available by default in
mpi.h. Specifically, several MPI-1 symbols were deprecated in the
1996 publishing of the MPI-2.0 specification. These deprecated
symbols were eventually removed from the MPI-3.0 specification in
2012.
The symbols that now no longer appear by default in Open MPI's mpi.h
are:
- MPI_Address (replaced by MPI_Get_address)
- MPI_Errhandler_create (replaced by MPI_Comm_create_errhandler)
- MPI_Errhandler_get (replaced by MPI_Comm_get_errhandler)
- MPI_Errhandler_set (replaced by MPI_Comm_set_errhandler)
- MPI_Type_extent (replaced by MPI_Type_get_extent)
- MPI_Type_hindexed (replaced by MPI_Type_create_hindexed)
- MPI_Type_hvector (replaced by MPI_Type_create_hvector)
- MPI_Type_lb (replaced by MPI_Type_get_extent)
- MPI_Type_struct (replaced by MPI_Type_create_struct)
- MPI_Type_ub (replaced by MPI_Type_get_extent)
- MPI_LB (replaced by MPI_Type_create_resized)
- MPI_UB (replaced by MPI_Type_create_resized)
- MPI_COMBINER_HINDEXED_INTEGER
- MPI_COMBINER_HVECTOR_INTEGER
- MPI_COMBINER_STRUCT_INTEGER
- MPI_Handler_function (replaced by MPI_Comm_errhandler_function)
Although these symbols are no longer prototyped in mpi.h, they
are still present in the MPI library in Open MPI v4.0.x. This
enables legacy MPI applications to link and run successfully with
Open MPI v4.0.x, even though they will fail to compile.
*** Future releases of Open MPI beyond the v4.0.x series may
remove these symbols altogether.
*** The Open MPI team STRONGLY encourages all MPI application
developers to stop using these constructs that were first
deprecated over 20 years ago, and finally removed from the MPI
specification in MPI-3.0 (in 2012).
*** The Open MPI FAQ (https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/) contains
examples of how to update legacy MPI applications using these
deleted symbols to use the "new" symbols.
All that being said, if you are unable to immediately update your
application to stop using these legacy MPI-1 symbols, you can
re-enable them in mpi.h by configuring Open MPI with the
--enable-mpi-compatibility flag.
- Rank reordering support is available using the TreeMatch library. It
is activated for the graph and dist_graph topologies.