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

6       MPI_Probe -  Blocking test for a message
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <mpi.h>
10       int MPI_Probe(int src, int tag, MPI_Comm comm,
11                     MPI_Status *stat)
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INPUT PARAMETERS

14       src    - source rank, or MPI_ANY_SOURCE (integer)
15       tag    - tag value or MPI_ANY_TAG (integer)
16       comm   - communicator (handle)
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OUTPUT PARAMETER

20       stat   - status object (Status), which may be the MPI constant MPI_STA‐
21              TUS_IGNORE
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NOTES FOR FORTRAN

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

37       If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is
38       called to handle it.  By default, this error  handler  aborts  the  MPI
39       job.   The  error  handler may be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set ; the
40       predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to  cause  error
41       values  to  be  returned  (in C and Fortran; this error handler is less
42       useful in with the C++ MPI  bindings.   The  predefined  error  handler
43       MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS  should  be used in C++ if the error value
44       needs to be recovered).  Note that MPI does not guarantee that  an  MPI
45       program can continue past an error.
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47       All  MPI  routines  (except  MPI_Wtime  and MPI_Wtick ) return an error
48       value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines  in
49       the  last  argument.  The C++ bindings for MPI do not return error val‐
50       ues; instead, error values are communicated by throwing  exceptions  of
51       type  MPI::Exception  (but not by default).  Exceptions are only thrown
52       if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .
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55       Note that if the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in  C++,  while  MPI
56       functions  will  return  upon an error, there will be no way to recover
57       what the actual error value was.
58       MPI_SUCCESS
59              - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
60       MPI_ERR_COMM
61              - Invalid communicator.  A common error is to use a null  commu‐
62              nicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank ).
63       MPI_ERR_TAG
64              -  Invalid  tag  argument.  Tags must be non-negative; tags in a
65              receive ( MPI_Recv , MPI_Irecv , MPI_Sendrecv , etc.)  may  also
66              be MPI_ANY_TAG .  The largest tag value is available through the
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69       MPI_ERR_RANK
70              - Invalid source or destination rank.   Ranks  must  be  between
71              zero  and  the  size  of  the communicator minus one; ranks in a
72              receive ( MPI_Recv , MPI_Irecv , MPI_Sendrecv , etc.)  may  also
73              be MPI_ANY_SOURCE .
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MORE INFORMATION

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

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

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98LAM/MPI 7.1.2                      2/23/2006                      MPI_Probe(3)
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