NAME

MPI_Group_free - Frees a group

SYNOPSIS

#include <mpi.h> 
int MPI_Group_free(MPI_Group *group ); 
#include <pmpi.h> 
int PMPI_Group_free(MPI_Group *group ); 
#include <mpi.h> 
void MPI::Group::Free(void); 
INCLUDE 'mpif.h' 
MPI_GROUP_FREE(group , ierr ) 
INTEGER  group ,  ierr 

INPUT PARAMETERS

group - group (handle)

OUTPUT PARAMETER

group - the group is set to MPI_GROUP_NULL

DESCRIPTION

The MPI_Group_free() function is used to free a user-created group . You may not free MPI_GROUP_NULL. However, freeing MPI_GROUP_EMPTY does nothing, returning MPI_SUCCESS.

PMPI_Group_free() is the profiling version of this function.

On success, group is set to MPI_GROUP_NULL

ERRORS

All MPI routines except for MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick return an error code. The the current MPI error handler is invoked if the return value is not MPI_SUCCESS. The default error handler aborts, but this may be changed with by using the MPI_Errhandler_set() function. The predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned instead. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error. In this implementation, all errors except MPI_ERR_INTERN or MPI_ERR_OTHER should always be recoverable.

In C, the error code is passed as the return value. In FORTRAN, all functions have an parameter ierr which returns the error code. MPI C++ functions do not directly return an error code. However, C++ users may want to use the MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS handler. This will throw an MPI::Exception with the corresponding error code. To prevent exceptions from being raised from within C and Fortran code, they will see all error return values as MPI_ERR_PENDING when this handler is chosen. In this implementation, call MPI::throw_exception() to throw the correct exception if this occurs.

MPI_SUCCESS - No error;

MPI_ERR_PENDING - Pending exception;

MPI_ERR_GROUP - Invalid group.

SEE ALSO

MPI_Group_incl (3) MPI_Group_difference (3) MPI_Group_excl (3) MPI_Group_intersection (3) MPI_Group_range_excl (3) MPI_Group_range_incl (3) MPI_Group_union (3)

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