[dmd-concurrency] real

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:51:53 -0500, Benjamin Shropshire  
<benjamin at precisionsoftware.us> wrote:
> Robert Jacques wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:07:54 -0500, Benjamin Shropshire  
>> <benjamin at precisionsoftware.us> wrote:
>>> What does MPI do?
>>
>> MPI stands for message passing interface. It knows nothing of shared  
>> state.
>>
> I was asking if MPI allows passing 80 bit real in messages? IIRC it does  
> have ways to pass text from one encoding to another.

Oh, sorry. Actually, to the best of my knowledge MPI doesn't have any  
conversion routines, text or otherwise. What it does have is some flags  
for the data type: char, int, float, double and complex. It also supports  
structs and other data structures, binary blobs, etc. (hmm, it makes me  
wonder about float endianess..)