- add provisional support for selecting MPI_Gatherv
when merging fields in the surface writers.
Uses the 'gatherv' keyword [experimental]
BUG: gatherv/scatterv wrappers used the incorrect data type
- incorrectly checked against UPstream_basic_dataType trait instead of
UPstream_dataType, which resulted in a count mismatch for
user-defined types (eg, vector, tensor,...).
This was not visibly active bug, since previous internal uses of
gatherv were restricted to primitive types.
COMP: make UPstream dataType traits size(...) constexpr
- allows static asserts and/or compile-time selection
of code based on size(1)
- "buffered" corresponds to MPI_Bsend (buffered send),
whereas the old name "blocking" is misleading since the
regular MPI_Send also blocks until completion
(ie, buffer can be reused).
ENH: IPstream::read() returns std::streamsize instead of label (#3152)
- previously returned a 'label' but std::streamsize is consistent with
the input parameter and will help with later adjustments.
- use <label> instead of <int> for internal accounting of the message
size, for consistency with the underyling List<char> buffers used.
- improve handling for corner case of IPstream receive with
non-blocking, although this combination is not used anywhere
- avoids clutter of argList::envGlobalPath() ...
ENH: allow temporary overwriting of output writeFormat
- allows switching for particular output routines
COMP: explicitly use TimePaths methods with Time
- this simplifies any overloading done at a later stage
