MPI_Group_difference(3)

1MPI_Group_difference(3)             LAM/MPI            MPI_Group_difference(3)
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NAME

6       MPI_Group_difference -  Makes a group from the difference of two groups
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <mpi.h>
10       int MPI_Group_difference(MPI_Group g1, MPI_Group g2,
11                              MPI_Group *pgd)
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INPUT PARAMETERS

14       g1     - first group (handle)
15       g2     - second group (handle)
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OUTPUT PARAMETER

19       pgd    - difference group (handle)
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NOTES

23       When  a  group  is  no  longer  being  used,  it  should  be freed with
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NOTES FOR FORTRAN

29       All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK )  have
30       an  additional  argument ierr at the end of the argument list.  ierr is
31       an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the  routine
32       in  C.   In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with
33       the call statement.
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35       All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in
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ERRORS

40       If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is
41       called to handle it.  By default, this error  handler  aborts  the  MPI
42       job.   The  error  handler may be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set ; the
43       predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to  cause  error
44       values  to  be  returned  (in C and Fortran; this error handler is less
45       useful in with the C++ MPI  bindings.   The  predefined  error  handler
46       MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS  should  be used in C++ if the error value
47       needs to be recovered).  Note that MPI does not guarantee that  an  MPI
48       program can continue past an error.
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50       All  MPI  routines  (except  MPI_Wtime  and MPI_Wtick ) return an error
51       value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines  in
52       the  last  argument.  The C++ bindings for MPI do not return error val‐
53       ues; instead, error values are communicated by throwing  exceptions  of
54       type  MPI::Exception  (but not by default).  Exceptions are only thrown
55       if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .
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58       Note that if the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in  C++,  while  MPI
59       functions  will  return  upon an error, there will be no way to recover
60       what the actual error value was.
61       MPI_SUCCESS
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63       MPI_ERR_GROUP
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65       MPI_ERR_ARG
66              - Invalid argument.  Some argument is invalid and is not identi‐
67              fied  by  a  specific  error  class.   This  is typically a NULL
68              pointer or other such error.
69       MPI_ERR_OTHER
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71              tation is unable to acquire memory.
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MORE INFORMATION

79       For more information, please see the official MPI Forum web site, which
80       contains the text of both the MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards.   These  docu‐
81       ments  contain  detailed  information  about each MPI function (most of
82       which is not duplicated in these man pages).
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84       http://www.mpi-forum.org/
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

89       The LAM Team would like the thank the MPICH Team for the handy  program
90       to  generate  man  pages ("doctext" from ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/sow‐
91       ing/sowing.tar.gz ), the initial formatting, and some initial text  for
92       most of the MPI-1 man pages.
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LOCATION

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99LAM/MPI 7.1.2                      2/23/2006           MPI_Group_difference(3)