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

I compiled all the notes on the wiki : http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/saga/space/SAGA+API/Messages Andrei Andre Merzky wrote:

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):

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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);