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@hppritcha hppritcha commented May 27, 2025

Two external MPI libraries are now created: libmpi.so and libmpi_abi.so.
Backend code that was originally in libmpi.la has been extracted into
libopen-mpi.la to be linked into both libraries.

Parts of the Open MPI C interface are now being generated by a python
script (abi.py) from modified source files (named with *.in). This
script generates files for both the ompi ABI and the standard ABI from
the same source file, also including new bigcount interfaces.

To compile standard ABI code, there's a new mpicc_abi compiler wrapper.
The standard ABI does not yet include all functions or symbols, so more
complicated source files will not compile. ROMIO must be disabled for
the code to link, since it's relying on the external MPI interface.

Many todos left:

  • switch over to using the canonical mpi.h header file
  • fix some remaining issues with types in the bindings framework
  • implement method for wrapping user callbacks so that they are passed abi versions of MPI handles
  • Add binding generation for MPI T functions
  • Fix enable-mca-dso
  • other

This PR supercedes #12033

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dalcinl commented Jul 11, 2025

Maybe you should somehow vendor the mpi.h header from https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-abi-stubs and use it as the baseline to extract values for handles and constants? That's what MPICH is doing.
Alternatively, the mpi.h header the mpi-abi-stubs repo could be downloaded on the fly by some Python script and the values in that header used to update stuff to be committed in the ompi repo.

In short, I think it would be in everyone's convenience to use https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-abi-stubs as the "source of truth" for ABI-related stuff, avoiding manual synchronization of handle/constant values.

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I wonder if we should make the bot not complain about unsigned commits on draft PRs. That would reduce some of the noise on PR's like this.

hppritcha added a commit to hppritcha/ompi that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2025
Turns out that in commit 6bd36a7 we had a function that is not part of the MPI standard.
This showed while working on ABI support - which requires us to pay attention to the truth
rather than make stuff up.

This commit removes our made up MPI_Session_set_info method.
Turns out who ever was doing the fortran bindings knew this wasn't a method in the standard
so there's no need to change the fortran bindings.  Same thing applies to the man pages.

Related to open-mpi#13280

Signed-off-by: Howard Pritchard <[email protected]>
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@hppritcha There is some issue with out-of-source builds, i.e

git clone ... ompi-main
...
mkdir -p ompi-BUILD/main
cd ompi-BUILD/main
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Making install in mpi/c
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/dalcinl/Devel/REPOS/ompi-BUILD/main/ompi/mpi/c'
mkdir -p standard_abi
  GENERATE abi.h
  GENERATE standard_abi/mpi.h
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  File "/home/dalcinl/Devel/REPOS/ompi-BUILD/main/ompi/mpi/c/../../../../../ompi-main/ompi/mpi/bindings/c_header.py", line 262, in <module>
    with open(OUTPUT, 'tw') as header_out:
         ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../../../../ompi-main/ompi/mpi/c/standard_abi/mpi.h'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:23335: standard_abi/mpi.h] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/dalcinl/Devel/REPOS/ompi-BUILD/main/ompi/mpi/c'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2785: install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dalcinl/Devel/REPOS/ompi-BUILD/main/ompi'
make: *** [Makefile:1526: install-recursive] Error 1

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interesting distcheck didn't check this.

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jenkins ci runs make distcheck

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dalcinl commented Aug 28, 2025

The ABI mpi.h header is missing some MPI_T_XXX types. Also, the Status f08/c converters are declared, and they should not.

I did the following manual edits to the installed mpi.h header:

diff -up ./mpi.h.orig ./mpi.h
--- ./mpi.h.orig	2025-08-28 18:55:49.842968779 +0300
+++ ./mpi.h	2025-08-28 19:03:07.192957305 +0300
@@ -490,6 +490,13 @@ enum {
 /* C preprocessor constants and Fortran parameters */
 /* $CATEGORY:C_PREPROCESSOR_CONSTANTS_FORTRAN_PARAMETERS$ */
 
+typedef struct MPI_T_enum_t* MPI_T_enum;
+typedef struct MPI_T_cvar_handle_t* MPI_T_cvar_handle;
+typedef struct MPI_T_pvar_handle_t* MPI_T_pvar_handle;
+typedef struct MPI_T_pvar_session_t* MPI_T_pvar_session;
+typedef struct MPI_T_event_registration_t* MPI_T_event_registration;
+typedef struct MPI_T_event_instance_t* MPI_T_event_instance;
+
 /* Handles used in the MPI tool information interface */
 #define MPI_T_ENUM_NULL                       ((MPI_T_enum) 0)
 #define MPI_T_CVAR_HANDLE_NULL                ((MPI_T_cvar_handle) 0)
@@ -558,20 +565,20 @@ enum {
 };
 
 /* Source event ordering guarantees in the MPI tool information interface */
-enum {
+typedef enum MPI_T_source_order {
     MPI_T_SOURCE_ORDERED                      = 1,
     MPI_T_SOURCE_UNORDERED                    = 2,
-};
+} MPI_T_source_order;
 
 /*
  * Callback safety requirement levels used in the MPI tool information interface
  */
-enum {
+typedef enum MPI_T_cb_safety {
     MPI_T_CB_REQUIRE_NONE                     = 0x00,
     MPI_T_CB_REQUIRE_MPI_RESTRICTED           = 0x03,
     MPI_T_CB_REQUIRE_THREAD_SAFE              = 0x0F,
     MPI_T_CB_REQUIRE_ASYNC_SIGNAL_SAFE        = 0x3F,
-};
+} MPI_T_cb_safety;
 
 
 /* Callback functions */
@@ -1107,13 +1114,13 @@ int MPI_Ssend_init(const void* buf, int
 int MPI_Ssend_init_c(const void* buf, MPI_Count count, MPI_Datatype datatype, int dest, int tag, MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Request* request);
 int MPI_Start(MPI_Request* request);
 int MPI_Startall(int count, MPI_Request array_of_requests[]);
-/* int MPI_Status_c2f(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
- */int MPI_Status_c2f08(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
-int MPI_Status_f082c(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
-/* int MPI_Status_f082f(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
- *//* int MPI_Status_f2c(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
- *//* int MPI_Status_f2f08(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
- */int MPI_Status_get_error(const MPI_Status* status, int* err);
+// /* int MPI_Status_c2f(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
+//  */int MPI_Status_c2f08(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
+// int MPI_Status_f082c(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
+// /* int MPI_Status_f082f(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
+//  *//* int MPI_Status_f2c(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
+//  *//* int MPI_Status_f2f08(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
+//  */int MPI_Status_get_error(const MPI_Status* status, int* err);
 int MPI_Status_get_source(const MPI_Status* status, int* source);
 int MPI_Status_get_tag(const MPI_Status* status, int* tag);
 int MPI_Status_set_cancelled(MPI_Status* status, int flag);
@@ -1799,13 +1806,13 @@ int PMPI_Ssend_init(const void* buf, int
 int PMPI_Ssend_init_c(const void* buf, MPI_Count count, MPI_Datatype datatype, int dest, int tag, MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Request* request);
 int PMPI_Start(MPI_Request* request);
 int PMPI_Startall(int count, MPI_Request array_of_requests[]);
-/* int PMPI_Status_c2f(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
- */int PMPI_Status_c2f08(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
-int PMPI_Status_f082c(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
-/* int PMPI_Status_f082f(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
- *//* int PMPI_Status_f2c(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
- *//* int PMPI_Status_f2f08(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
- */int PMPI_Status_get_error(const MPI_Status* status, int* err);
+// /* int PMPI_Status_c2f(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
+//  */int PMPI_Status_c2f08(const MPI_Status* c_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
+// int PMPI_Status_f082c(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
+// /* int PMPI_Status_f082f(const MPI_F08_status* f08_status, MPI_Fint* f_status);
+//  *//* int PMPI_Status_f2c(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_Status* c_status);
+//  *//* int PMPI_Status_f2f08(const MPI_Fint* f_status, MPI_F08_status* f08_status);
+//  */int PMPI_Status_get_error(const MPI_Status* status, int* err);
 int PMPI_Status_get_source(const MPI_Status* status, int* source);
 int PMPI_Status_get_tag(const MPI_Status* status, int* tag);
 int PMPI_Status_set_cancelled(MPI_Status* status, int flag);

I'm able to compile (using mpicc_abi) the pure-C demo/helloworld.c file from mpi4py sources using gcc-15.
Note however that the executable fails to link:

$ mpicc_abi helloworld.c
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_mpi_info_null'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_get'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_mpi_info_env'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_isendrecv'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_get_nthkey'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_memkind_copy_or_set'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_set'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_delete'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_sendrecv'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_get_bool'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_free'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_memkind_cb'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_memkind_process'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_dup'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_mpiinfo_init'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_get_nkeys'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_allocate'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_mpiinfo_init_env'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/main/lib/libmpi_abi.so: undefined reference to `ompi_info_get_valuelen'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

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dalcinl commented Sep 2, 2025

@hppritcha Actually, take a look at mpi-forum/mpi-abi-stubs#63

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dalcinl commented Sep 3, 2025

The installed mpi.h header is still broken, I had to fix it as per the patch in my previous comment.
Afterwards, my basic helloworld program compiles and links, but it fails to run:

$ mpicc_abi helloworld.c
$ mpiexec -n 1 ./a.out 
[optiplex:00000] *** An error occurred in MPI_Init_thread
[optiplex:00000] *** reported by process [3633774593,0]
[optiplex:00000] *** on a NULL communicator
[optiplex:00000] *** MPI_ERR_ARG: invalid argument of some other kind
[optiplex:00000] *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort,
[optiplex:00000] ***    and MPI will try to terminate your MPI job as well)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
prterun has exited due to process rank 0 with PID 0 on node optiplex calling
"abort". This may have caused other processes in the application to be
terminated by signals sent by prterun (as reported here).
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dalcinl commented Sep 3, 2025

@hppritcha The following definitions in the generated mpi.h file are wrong, they should be like ((MPI_Comm_copy_attr_function*) 0), that is, add the missing * to get a function POINTER type.
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-abi-stubs/blob/main/mpi.h#L470

/* Predefined functions */
#define MPI_COMM_NULL_COPY_FN                 ((MPI_Comm_copy_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_COMM_DUP_FN                       ((MPI_Comm_copy_attr_function) 1)
#define MPI_COMM_NULL_DELETE_FN               ((MPI_Comm_delete_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_WIN_NULL_COPY_FN                  ((MPI_Win_copy_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_WIN_DUP_FN                        ((MPI_Win_copy_attr_function) 1)
#define MPI_WIN_NULL_DELETE_FN                ((MPI_Win_delete_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_TYPE_NULL_COPY_FN                 ((MPI_Type_copy_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_TYPE_DUP_FN                       ((MPI_Type_copy_attr_function) 1)
#define MPI_TYPE_NULL_DELETE_FN               ((MPI_Type_delete_attr_function) 0)
#define MPI_CONVERSION_FN_NULL                ((MPI_Datarep_conversion_function) 0)
#define MPI_CONVERSION_FN_NULL_C              ((MPI_Datarep_conversion_function_c) 0)

/* Deprecated predefined functions */
#define MPI_NULL_COPY_FN                      ((MPI_Copy_function) 0)
#define MPI_DUP_FN                            ((MPI_Copy_function) 1)
#define MPI_NULL_DELETE_FN                    ((MPI_Delete_function) 0)

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dalcinl commented Sep 3, 2025

PS: You may have a similar problems in some MPI_T_XXX routines having arguments of type MPI_T_xxx_function, I believe you should add the * .


__opal_attribute_always_inline__ static inline int ompi_convert_abi_ts_level_intern_ts_level(int ts_level)
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if (MPI_THREAD_SINGLE_ABI_INTERNAL == ts_level) {
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Wouldn't a switch statement be better? It may ultimately be a matter of taste (optimizing compilers may generate similar binary code). Just a mild observation.

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dalcinl commented Sep 3, 2025

@hppritcha What's your plan for stuff introduced in MPI 4.1 and MPI 5.0? The generated mpi.h header says MPI_VERSION=5, however the MPI library libmpi_abi.so.0 seems to miss a bunch of stuff from MPI 4.1 and 5.0.

This is a list of what I managed to detect as missing from mpi4py's configuration machinery for missing MPI stuff.
Note there are a few that are quite old, like MPI_Aint_add/diff, MPI_Wtick, and MPI_Pcontrol.

MPI_Aint_add
MPI_Aint_diff
MPI_Type_get_value_index
MPI_Type_get_envelope
MPI_Type_get_contents
MPI_Type_get_envelope_c
MPI_Type_get_contents_c
MPI_Buffer_flush
MPI_Buffer_iflush
MPI_Comm_attach_buffer
MPI_Comm_detach_buffer
MPI_Comm_flush_buffer
MPI_Comm_iflush_buffer
MPI_Session_attach_buffer
MPI_Session_detach_buffer
MPI_Session_flush_buffer
MPI_Session_iflush_buffer
MPI_Comm_errhandler_fn
MPI_Comm_attach_buffer_c
MPI_Comm_detach_buffer_c
MPI_Session_attach_buffer_c
MPI_Session_detach_buffer_c
MPI_Remove_error_class
MPI_Remove_error_code
MPI_Remove_error_string
MPI_Abi_get_fortran_info
MPI_Get_hw_resource_info
MPI_Wtick
MPI_Pcontrol
MPI_Comm_toint
MPI_Errhandler_toint
MPI_File_toint
MPI_Group_toint
MPI_Info_toint
MPI_Message_toint
MPI_Op_toint
MPI_Request_toint
MPI_Session_toint
MPI_Type_toint
MPI_Win_toint
MPI_Comm_fromint
MPI_Errhandler_fromint
MPI_File_fromint
MPI_Group_fromint
MPI_Info_fromint
MPI_Message_fromint
MPI_Op_fromint
MPI_Request_fromint
MPI_Session_fromint
MPI_Type_fromint
MPI_Win_fromint

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dalcinl commented Sep 3, 2025

Current status regarding mpi4py:

  • I'm able to build mpi4py using export MPICC=mpicc_abi.
  • However, due to missing symbols, I'm not able to import the Python module.
  • I can switch via LD_LIBRARY_PATH to MPICH's libmpi_abi.so, but there are a few issues related to datatype handles and a few failing tests involving MPI callbacks (errhandlers and attributes). I need to investigate further.

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Thanks for checking this stuff out in its early state @dalcinl. some of the above functions have been implemented but are sitting in various states in PRs. some of these should be defined - like MPI_Wtick and the aint related functions so i'll see what's going on. As for the fromint/toint that seems like an excellent project for a AI LLM. I'll see what can be done there.

We still need to add some plumbing in the ompi internals for callbacks. that will come in as part of this PR.

The NERSC folks would really like ABI working for Doudna so to the extent there's a "plan" it would be nice to get this working sooner than later.

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Hmmm. I don't understand this test:

458     def testIProbe(self):
459         comm = self.COMM.Dup()
460         try:
461             f = comm.Iprobe()
462             self.assertFalse(f)
463             f = comm.Iprobe(MPI.ANY_SOURCE)
464             self.assertFalse(f)
465             f = comm.Iprobe(MPI.ANY_SOURCE, MPI.ANY_TAG)
466             self.assertFalse(f)
467             status = MPI.Status()
468             f = comm.Iprobe(MPI.ANY_SOURCE, MPI.ANY_TAG, status)
469             self.assertFalse(f)
470             self.assertEqual(status.source, MPI.ANY_SOURCE)
471             self.assertEqual(status.tag, MPI.ANY_TAG)
472             self.assertEqual(status.error, MPI.SUCCESS)
473         finally:

in particular the checks in lines 470-472. I''m not seeing anything in section 3.8.1 about the status fields in the case of flag being false and source being MPI_ANY_SOURCE tag MPI_ANY_TAG.

eventually we'll use separate SOURCE and DEST (or something like that)
types.

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dalcinl commented Oct 30, 2025

in particular the checks in lines 470-472. I''m not seeing anything in section 3.8.1 about the status fields in the case of flag being false and source being MPI_ANY_SOURCE tag MPI_ANY_TAG.

I coded that test long ago, but I think my intention was to test that Iprobe did not modify the Status fields. mpi4py initializes Status as the empty status, so after passing it to a Iprobe that returns false, the Status object should preserve their source/tag/error values. In retrospective, I should have initialized source/tag/error to something different than the empty status.

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okay I see in that case the test makes sense.

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okay with the current set of commits I can get mpi4py at fc5be43c passing for singleton (VERSION set to MPI 5.1). I'm seeing problems with UCX PML for some cases for MPI_mprobe/improbe so have been using the OB1 PML for testing. the UCX problems don't seem to be related to ABI support.

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dalcinl commented Oct 31, 2025

@hppritcha I'm still getting a bunch of warnings all like the following:

malloc debug: Request for 0 bytes (type_get_contents_c_abi_generated.c, 99)

I guess you should skip malloc if the array size is zero?

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dalcinl commented Oct 31, 2025

I'm seeing problems with UCX PML

I don't think mpi4py is tested regularly with the UCX PML. IIRC, the GitHub Actions workflow does not build with UCX, so all testing happens exclusively with OB1, right?

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dalcinl commented Oct 31, 2025

I'm still seeing this failure, related to the previous status->MPI_ERROR drama.

$ mpiexec --oversubscribe -n 1 python test/main.py -q test_request
======================================================================
FAIL: testGetStatusAll (test_request.TestRequestArray.testGetStatusAll)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dalcinl/Devel/mpi4py/test/test_request.py", line 149, in testGetStatusAll
    self.assertEqual(status.error, MPI.SUCCESS)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 16660 != 0

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Ran 12 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (failures=1)

Besides the status->MPI_ERROR drama, I suspect there is something else going on there.

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dalcinl commented Oct 31, 2025

@hppritcha Look at the attached patch: ompi-status-out.patch

EDIT: I deleted a previous comment and refreshed the patch, there was a missing cast for malloc.

You may not like it at first, but IMHO, you an OUT status has to be really treated as INOUT, thus they should be converted on input. Otherwise, it is very hard to ensure the preservation of their contents. For example, recalling the status->MPI_ERROR drama, things should behave as if Open MPI had not touched the MPI_ERROR field, thus you must preserve its value on input. Additionally, imagine that some MPI routine taking an OUT status argument fails with error (e.g because of some bad argument), then the most likely expected behavior is that the contents of the status object/array do not change (although I don't think this is explicitly mandated in the standard). Then, once again, the safe thing to to is to copy ABI->OMPI on input, such that changes to status effectively done in the MPI call are visible, and what MPI does not touch it is preserved.

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dalcinl commented Oct 31, 2025

@hppritcha Could you generate an void *ompi_abi_allocate(MPI_Count count, size_t elsize) malloc wrapper (in abi_converters.h) that would return NULL if count is not positive?

You can use this new malloc wrapper anywhere required to allocate tmp stuff, with two benefits: a) avoid the malloc(0) warnings in debug builds, b) avoid the usual malloc problem if count is negative but gets converted to unsigned size_t, thus letting the inner layers to do error checking on the count value.

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all good ideas. i'll work on these next week.

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