NAME

       MPI_Buffer_detach -  Removes an existing buffer (for use in MPI_Bsend etc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <mpi.h>
       int MPI_Buffer_detach(void *pbuf, int *psize)

OUTPUT PARAMETERS

       pbuf   - initial buffer address (choice)
       psize  - buffer size, in bytes (integer)

NOTES

       The  reason  that  MPI_Buffer_detach  returns  the  address  and  size of the buffer being
       detached is to allow nested libraries to replace and restore  the  buffer.   For  example,
       consider

       int size, mysize, idummy;
       void *ptr, *myptr, *dummy;
       MPI_Buffer_detach(&ptr, &size);
       MPI_Buffer_attach(myptr, mysize);
       // ...library code...
       MPI_Buffer_detach(&dummy, &idummy);
       MPI_Buffer_attach(ptr, size);

       This  is much like the action of the Unix signal routine and has the same strengths (it is
       simple) and weaknesses (it only works for nested usages).

       Note that for this approach to work, MPI_Buffer_detach must return MPI_SUCCESS  even  when
       there  is  no  buffer  to  detach.   In that case, it returns a size of zero.  The MPI 1.1
       standard for MPI_BUFFER_DETACH contains the text

       The statements made in this section describe the behavior of MPI
       for buffered-mode sends. When no buffer is currently associated,
       MPI behaves as if a zero-sized buffer is associated with the
       process.

       This could be read as applying only to the various Bsend  routines.   This  implementation
       takes the position that this applies to MPI_BUFFER_DETACH as well.

NOTES FOR FORTRAN

       All  MPI  routines  in  Fortran  (except  for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK ) have an additional
       argument ierr at the end of the argument list.  ierr  is  an  integer  and  has  the  same
       meaning  as  the  return  value  of  the  routine  in  C.   In  Fortran,  MPI routines are
       subroutines, and are invoked with the call statement.

       All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in Fortran.

       The Fortran binding for  this  routine  is  different.   Because  Fortran  does  not  have
       pointers,  it is impossible to provide a way to use the output of this routine to exchange
       buffers.  In this case, only the size field is set.

NOTES FOR C

       Even though the pbuf argument is declared as void * , it is really the address of  a  void
       pointer (i.e., void ** ).  See the rationale in the MPI Standard for more details.

MORE INFORMATION

       For  more information, please see the official MPI Forum web site, which contains the text
       of both the MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards.  These documents contain detailed information about
       each MPI function (most of which is not duplicated in these man pages).

       http://www.mpi-forum.org/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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

LOCATION

       bufdetach.c