Language Bindings (partial) chapter RC review

[jsquyres]

From reviewing pages 779-780 in the Nov 2020 4.0 RC document:

• p779 31, 37, and 41: I've long-thought that the "USE mpi_f08", "USE mpi", and "INCLUDE 'mpif.h'" were in the wrong font. Shouldn't they be fixed-width instead of boldface?
• p780 1: "Compliant MPI-3 implementations..." --> "Compliant MPI implementations"
  • Meaning: this doc is MPI-4.0. We're talking about the MPI implementation in this doc, which is 4.0. If we only talk about MPI-3 implementations, this doesn't technically include MPI-3.1 or MPI-4.0.

[wgropp]

I agree with both. Though there is some inconsistency in exactly how these are shown in text, but they are consistently in \code{}, which is a fixed-width font.

Good catch on the "Compliant MPI-3 implementations"!

[RolfRabenseifner]

Through Change-log and the rules about MPI_Get_version (can return from 1.1? until 4.0), and other wording in this standard, the better wording may be:

p780 1: "Implementations compliant to MPI-3.0 and later providing a Fortran interface must provide one or both of the following:"

or

"Since MPI-3.0, compliant MPI implementations providing a Fortran interface must provide one or both of the following:"