Thanks everyone for the reply and happy Turkey day!<br>Cheers!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Squyres <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jsquyres@cisco.com">jsquyres@cisco.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Natarajan CS wrote:<br>
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Oh okay that explains the behaviour of MPI_SHORT, guess sizeof is going to give me the same value no matter what MPI_Datatype I use? Thanks for the quick response!<br>
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Correct.  MPI_&lt;datatype_name&gt; is just a handle to an internal MPI data structure.  Its size (as reported by sizeof()) is unrelated to the actual datatype size.<br><font color="#888888">
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