[saga-rg] Re: Meeting Notes: Messaging API

[Andre Merzky]

Hmm, that is what I initially wanted to say :-)  I should
have marked in/out params more clearly...

A.


Quoting [John Shalf] (Nov 22 2005):
> 
> Whoops,
> then we really need
> 	a) size is not known, so we do two step
> 	int getMessageSize(handle);
> 	<malloc by application>
> 	int read(handle,buffer,size)
> 
> 	b) size is not known, but we let implementation malloc automatically
> 	char *readAutoAllocate(handle);
> 
> 	c) size is known, so we just do a one-step read
> 	int read(handle,buffer,size);
> 	



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