You could just define your own library with the same signatures as official MPI functions, and link that into MPI applications. Under the covers, you invoke the PMPI_* equivalents of each function. Lots of profiling and analysis tools work this way. For example:

int MPI_Init(int argc, char **argv)
{
/* do whatever you want to do here */
ret = PMPI_Init(argc, argv);
/* do whatever you want to do here */
return ret;
}

compile/link that into libextra_mpi_stuff.a. Then compile your app with:

mpicc my_mpi_app.c -lextra_mpi_stuff

and then when mpi_mpi_app.c calls MPI_Init(), it'll call *your* MPI_Init. Your MPI_Init will do whatever it wants to, and invoke PMPI_Init() (i.e., the "real" init function) and return back to the user.

This is the profiling interface of MPI.

On May 13, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Le Duy Khanh wrote:

> Dear,
>
> I intend to override some MPI functions such as MPI_Init, MPI_Recv... but I don't want to dig into OpenMPI source code.Therefore, I am thinking of a way to create a lib called "mympi.h" in which I will #include "mpi.h" to override those functions. I will create a new interface with exactly the same signatures like MPI_Init (because users are familiar with those functions). However, the problem is that I don't know how to override those functions because as I know, C/C++ doesn't allow us to override functions (only overload them).
>
> Could you please show me how to override OMPI functions but still keep the same function names and signatures?
>
> Thank you so much for your time and consideration
>
> Le , Duy Khanh
> Cellphone: (+84)958521704
> Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
> Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology , Viet Nam
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