MPI_Is_thread_main(3)

NAME
MPI_Is_thread_main - determine if the caller is the main thread

SYNOPSIS
#include <mpi.h>
int
MPI_Is_thread_main(int *pflag)

OUTPUT PARAMETER
pflag
    - true if calling thread is main thread, false otherwise

DESCRIPTION

This function is mainly here for link-compatability. Since only the MPI_THREAD_SINGLE level of thread concurrency is supported in LAM/MPI, this function has limited usefulness. Future versions of LAM/MPI will support multi-threaded user programs, in which case MPI_Init_thread must be used to initialize MPI. Hence, programmers can use this function now in order to program for future flexibility.

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.

ERRORS

If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is called to handle it. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set ; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned (in C and Fortran; this error handler is less useful in with the C++ MPI bindings. The predefined error handler MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS should be used in C++ if the error value needs to be recovered). Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.

All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick ) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. The C++ bindings for MPI do not return error values; instead, error values are communicated by throwing exceptions of type MPI::Exception (but not by default). Exceptions are only thrown if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .

Note that if the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in C++, while MPI functions will return upon an error, there will be no way to recover what the actual error value was.
MPI_SUCCESS
    - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
MPI_ERR_ARG
    - Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class. This is typically a NULL pointer or other such error.

SEE ALSO
MPI_Init_thread(3), MPI_Query_thread(3)

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/

LOCATION
isthrmain.c