.\"Copyright 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_Op_free 3OpenMPI "September 2006" "Open MPI 1.2" " "
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Op_free\fP \- Frees a user-defined combination function handle.

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Op_free(MPI_Op *\fIop\fP)

.SH Fortran Syntax
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INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_OP_FREE(\fIOP, IERROR\fP)
	INTEGER	\fIOP, IERROR\fP 

.SH C++ Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
void Op::Free()

.SH INPUT/OUTPUT PARAMETER
.TP 1i
op
Operation (handle).

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

.SH DESCRIPTION
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Marks a user-defined reduction operation for deallocation and sets \fIop\fP to MPI_OP_NULL. 

.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_Op_create
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MPI_Reduce
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MPI_Allreduce
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MPI_Reduce_scatter
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MPI_Scan