Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:46:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@XXXXXXXXXX>
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Subject: Re: MPI_PROC_NULL in MPI_GROUP_TRANSLATE_RANKS 
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Rusty Lusk wrote:

> It seems like it would be in the spirit of MPI_PROC_NULL to have the
> translation of MPI_PROC_NULL be MPI_PROC_NULL, but one could also read
> the description of MPI_GROUP_TRANSLATE_RANKS as allowing one to treat
> it as an invalid rank.  I would be curious to find out what the other
> implementors do?

LAM returns an error (MPI_ERR_RANK).

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