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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:02:15 -0500
Subject: Re: clarification on inter-language interoperability of attributes
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Again, look at the MPI document, on language interoperability 4-12-7. It  makes
clear how integer attributes (aka Fortran attributes) are accessed in C. It's as
shown in my second example -- namely MPI_Comm_Attr_get returns a pointer to the
integer variable.

Marc Snir
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