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MPI_Type_extent - Returns the extent of a data type, the difference
between the upper and lower bounds of the data type -- use of this routine
is deprecated. 
 
 #include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Type_extent(MPI_Datatype datatype, MPI_Aint *extent)
 
 INCLUDE ’mpif.h’
MPI_TYPE_EXTENT(DATATYPE, EXTENT, IERROR)
    INTEGER    DATATYPE, EXTENT, IERROR
 
datatype       Datatype (handle). 
 
Note that use of this routine is deprecated as of MPI-2. Please
use MPI_Type_get_extent instead.extent
      Datatype extent (integer). 
IERROR Fortran only: Error status (integer).
  
This deprecated routine is not available
in C++.   
MPI_Type_extent returns the extent of a data type, the difference
between the upper and lower bounds of the data type.   
In general, if  
     Typemap = {(type(0), disp(0)), ..., (type(n-1), disp(n-1))}
then the lower bound of Typemap is defined to be   
               ( min(j) disp(j)                         if no entry has
  lb(Typemap)=(                                        basic type lb
              (min(j) {disp(j) such that type(j) = lb} otherwise
Similarly, the upper bound of Typemap is defined to be  
               (max(j) disp(j) + sizeof(type(j)) + e    if no entry has
  ub(Typemap)=(                                        basic type ub
              (max(j) {disp(j) such that type(j) = ub} otherwise
Then   
     extent(Typemap) = ub(Typemap) - lb(Typemap)
 
If type(i) requires alignment to a byte address that is a multiple of k(i),
then e is the least nonnegative increment needed to round extent(Typemap)
to the next multiple of max(i) k(i).
 
Almost all MPI routines return
an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines
in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default
error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the
C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI:Exception object. 
Before
the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By
default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function
errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the
predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values
to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can
continue past an error.
 
 
MPI_Type_get_extent 
   
 
 
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