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/*
   This source code file is part of thread_mpi.
   Written by Sander Pronk, Erik Lindahl, and possibly others.

   Copyright (c) 2009, Sander Pronk, Erik Lindahl.
   All rights reserved.

   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
   1) Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
   2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
   3) Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the
   names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
   derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY US ''AS IS'' AND ANY
   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
   WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
   DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY
   DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
   (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
   LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
   ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
   (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
   SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

   If you want to redistribute modifications, please consider that
   scientific software is very special. Version control is crucial -
   bugs must be traceable. We will be happy to consider code for
   inclusion in the official distribution, but derived work should not
   be called official thread_mpi. Details are found in the README & COPYING
   files.
 */

#ifndef TMPI_TMPI_H_
#define TMPI_TMPI_H_

/** \file
 *
 * \brief Partial implementation of MPI using only threads.
 *
 * See the MPI specification at
 * http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html
 * for an explanation of what these functions do.
 *
 * Because this is a thread-based library, be very careful with global
 * variables and static variables in functions: they will be shared across
 * all threads and lead to conflicts if not properly mutex-ed or barrier-ed
 * out.
 *
 * \sa http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html for MPI documentation.
 */


/* for size_t, include stddef.h - which is in C89. This is done
   regardless of whether we're compiling C++ or C code because the base
   library for this is in C. */
#include <stddef.h>

#include "visibility.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif
#if 0
} /* Avoids screwing up auto-indentation */
#endif



/** tMPI definition.

   Use this to check for thread_mpi with the preprocessor. */
#define TMPI


/** tMPI initialization thread affinity strategy.

    Used in the tMPI_Init_affinity() and  tMPI_Init_fn_affinity() functions,
    to control how affinity is set. The default tMPI_Init() and tMPI_Init_fn()
    functions use the TMPI_AFFINITY_ALL_CORES strategy.

    These strategies are fairly basic. For more flexibility, use the
    tMPI_Set_affinity() function.*/
typedef enum
{
    TMPI_AFFINITY_NONE = 0,     /**< Do not set any thread affinity */
    TMPI_AFFINITY_ALL_CORES,    /**< Only set affinity if the number of threads
                                     is equal to the number of hardware threads
                                     (cores + hyperthreads). This is the only
                                     safe way to set thread affinity,
                                     without clashes between multiple
                                     instances of the same program. */
} tMPI_Affinity_strategy;



/** tMPI Communicator

   Holds the group of processes to communicate
   with, and defines the scope for global operations such as broadcast. */
typedef struct tmpi_comm_ *tMPI_Comm;

/** tMPI Group

   The group structure. Contains a list of threads. */
typedef struct tmpi_group_ *tMPI_Group;

/** tMPI Request

   Request structure for holding data about non-blocking transfers. */
typedef struct tmpi_req_ *tMPI_Request;


/** tMPI datatype

   tMPI data type structure. Holds info about datatypes. */
typedef struct tmpi_datatype_ *tMPI_Datatype;


/*! \name tMPI Data types
    These are MPI data types as specified by the MPI standard.
    Note that not all are available.  */
/*! \{ */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_CHAR;               /**< char */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_SHORT;              /**< short */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_INT;                /**< int */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_LONG;               /**< long */
#ifdef SIZEOF_LONG_LONG_INT
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_LONG_LONG;          /**< long long */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_LONG_LONG_INT;      /**< long long int */
#endif
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_SIGNED_CHAR;        /**< signed char */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_UNSIGNED_CHAR;      /**< unsigned char */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_UNSIGNED_SHORT;     /**< unsigned short */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_UNSIGNED;           /**< unsigned int */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_UNSIGNED_LONG;      /**< unsigned long */
#ifdef SIZEOF_LONG_LONG_INT
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG; /**< unsigned long long */
#endif
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_FLOAT;              /**< float */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_DOUBLE;             /**< double */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_LONG_DOUBLE;        /**< long double */
/*extern tMPI_Datatype tMPI_UNSIGNED_WCHAR */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_BYTE;               /**< byte (for binary
                                                               xmissions) */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern const tMPI_Datatype TMPI_POINTER;            /**< pointer (thread_mpi
                                                                  specific) */

/*! \} */


/** Error codes */
enum
{
    TMPI_SUCCESS = 0,            /*!< No error */
    TMPI_ERR_NO_MEM,             /*!< Out of memory */
    TMPI_ERR_IO,                 /*!< I/O Error (used for system errors) */
    TMPI_ERR_INIT,               /*!< Initialization error */
    TMPI_ERR_FINALIZE,           /*!< Finalize error */
    TMPI_ERR_GROUP,              /*!< Group error */
    TMPI_ERR_COMM,               /*!< Comm error */
    TMPI_ERR_STATUS,             /*!< Status error */
    TMPI_ERR_GROUP_RANK,         /*!< Group rank error */
    TMPI_ERR_DIMS,               /*!< Invalid topology dimensions */
    TMPI_ERR_COORDS,             /*!< Invalid topology coordinates */
    TMPI_ERR_CART_CREATE_NPROCS, /*!< Not enough processes for topology*/
    TMPI_ERR_XFER_COUNTERPART,   /*!< Invalid counterpart for xfer */
    TMPI_ERR_XFER_BUFSIZE,       /*!< buffer size too small*/
    TMPI_ERR_XFER_BUF_OVERLAP,   /*!< buffer overlaps (thread error?)*/
    TMPI_ERR_SEND_DEST,          /*!< Faulty send destination */
    TMPI_ERR_RECV_SRC,           /*!< Faulty receive source */
    TMPI_ERR_BUF,                /*!< Invalid buffer */
    TMPI_ERR_MULTI_MISMATCH,     /*!< Comm not the same in collective call*/
    TMPI_ERR_OP_FN,              /*!< Invalid reduce operator*/
    TMPI_ERR_ENVELOPES,          /*!< out of envelopes (tMPI internal) */
    TMPI_ERR_REQUESTS,           /*!< out of requests (tMPI internal) */
    TMPI_ERR_COPY_NBUFFERS,      /*!< out of copy buffers (tMPI internal)*/
    TMPI_ERR_COPY_BUFFER_SIZE,   /*!< copy buffer size err (tMPI internal)*/
    TMPI_ERR_IN_STATUS,          /*!< error code in tMPI_Status */
    TMPI_ERR_PROCNR,             /*!< Hardware processor number (such as for
                                      thread affinity) error */
    TMPI_FAILURE,                /*!< Transmission failure */
    TMPI_ERR_UNKNOWN,            /*!< Unknown error */
    N_TMPI_ERR                   /* this must be the last one */
};

/** Maximum length of error string for tMPI_Error_string() */
#define TMPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING            256

/** default code for undefined value,

    For example for undefined color in tMPI_Split(). */
#define TMPI_UNDEFINED -1

/** error handler function */
typedef void (*tMPI_Errhandler_fn)(tMPI_Comm*, int*);
/** error handler object */
typedef struct tmpi_errhandler_ *tMPI_Errhandler;

/** pre-defined error handler that abort()s on every error */
extern tMPI_Errhandler TMPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL;
/** pre-defined error handler that tries to continue on every error */
extern tMPI_Errhandler TMPI_ERRORS_RETURN;

/*! \name tMPI_Comm_compare() return codes */
/*! \{ */
/** Identical comms*/
#define TMPI_IDENT 0
/** Comms with the same members in the same order*/
#define TMPI_CONGRUENT 1
/** Comms with the same members in the different order*/
#define TMPI_SIMILAR 2
/** Comms with the different  members */
#define TMPI_UNEQUAL 3
/*! \} */


/** Source number wildcard so tMPI_Recv(), etc. can receive from
           any source. */
#define TMPI_ANY_SOURCE -1
/** Tag number wildcard so tMPI_Recv(), etc. can receive messages with
           any tag. */
#define TMPI_ANY_TAG -1

/** Return code for Cartesian topology with tMPI_Topo_test().  */
#define TMPI_CART 1
/** Return code for graph topology with tMPI_Topo_test().  */
#define TMPI_GRAPH 2


/** Pre-initialized communicator with all available threads. */
TMPI_EXPORT
extern tMPI_Comm TMPI_COMM_WORLD;


/** A pre-defined NULL communicator to compare against, to check comm
           validity */
#define TMPI_COMM_NULL NULL
/** A pre-defined NULL group to compare against, to check group
           validity */
#define TMPI_GROUP_NULL NULL

/** the empty group */
extern tMPI_Group TMPI_GROUP_EMPTY;


/** The maximum processor name returned using tMPI_Get_processor_name(). */
#define TMPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME 128


/** Used as NULL status for tMPI_Recv(), etc. */
#define TMPI_STATUS_IGNORE NULL
/** Used as NULL status list for tMPI_Waitall(), etc. */
#define TMPI_STATUSES_IGNORE NULL

/** tMPI Status.

   Holds status info (tag, sender, amount of data transmitted) for receives.
   The status object is user-maintained. */
typedef struct tmpi_status_
{
    int    TMPI_SOURCE;     /**< Message source rank. */
    int    TMPI_TAG;        /**< Message source tag. */
    int    TMPI_ERROR;      /**< Message error. */
    size_t transferred;     /**< Number of transferred bytes */
    int    cancelled;       /**< Whether the transmission was canceled */
} tMPI_Status;
/*typedef struct tmpi_status_ tMPI_Status;*/

/** NULL request */
#define TMPI_REQUEST_NULL NULL

/** collective communication special to signify that the send
           buffer is to function as receive buffer.

           Used, for example in tMPI_Reduce. */
#define TMPI_IN_PLACE NULL


/** tMPI_Reduce operators.

    These all work (except obviously bad combinations like bitwise
    and/or/xor on floats, etc): */
typedef enum
{
    TMPI_MAX,       /**< calculate maximum value */
    TMPI_MIN,       /**< calculate minimum value */
    TMPI_SUM,       /**< calculate sum */
    TMPI_PROD,      /**< calculate product */
    TMPI_LAND,      /**< calculate logical and */
    TMPI_BAND,      /**< calculate binary and */
    TMPI_LOR,       /**< calculate logical or */
    TMPI_BOR,       /**< calculate binary or */
    TMPI_LXOR,      /**< calculate logical xor */
    TMPI_BXOR       /**< calculate binary xor */
} tMPI_Op;

#ifndef DOXYGEN
/* function to obtain tMPI_COMM_SELF */
tMPI_Comm tMPI_Get_comm_self(void);
#endif
/** The thread-specific comm containing only the thread itself.

    \hideinitializer
    \return the self comm object associated with the thread. */
#define TMPI_COMM_SELF (tMPI_Get_comm_self())







/* functions: */

/*! \name Initialization and exit functions
 \{ */
/** Traditional MPI initializer; spawns threads that start at the given
    function.

    Seeks the argument '-nt n', where n is the number of
    threads that will be created. If n==0, the number of threads will
    be the recommended number of threads for this platform as obtained
    from tMPI_Get_recommended_ntreads().

    The new threads then run the function start_function, with the original
    argc and argv. This function could be main(), or any other function;
    calling this function again - whether from the started threads or from
    the main thread - has no effect.

    On platforms that support thread affinity setting, this function will
    use the 'all-cores' affinity strategy: it will only set thread affinity
    if the number of threads is equal to the number of hardware threads
    (cores + hyperthreads).

    \param[in] argc             argc of original main() invocation, or NULL
    \param[in] argv             argv of original main() invocation, or NULL.
    \param[in] start_function   Starting function of type
                                int start_function(int argc, char *argv[]);

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Init(int *argc, char ***argv,
              int (*start_function)(int, char**));


/** Generic init function thread MPI intializer and thread spawner.

    Creates N threads (including main thread)
    that run the function start_function, which takes a void* argument,
    given by arg. The function start_function also gets called by the main
    thread. When the function start_function returns it, will behave
    as if tMPI_Finalize is called, and if it's a sub-thread it will
    stop running.

    If N==0, the number of threads will be the recommended number of
    threads for this platform as obtained from tMPI_Get_recommended_ntreads().

    Note that thread affinity strategy only has an effect when this is
    supported by the underlying platform. As of yet (2012), this is not the
    case for Mac OS X, for example.

    \param[in]  main_thread_returns   whether the control in the main thread
                                      should return immediately (if true), or
                                      the start_function() should be called
                                      from the main thread, too (if false).
    \param[in] N                      The number of threads to start (or 0 to
                                      automatically determine this).
    \param[in] aff_strategy           The thread affinity strategy to use.
    \param[in] start_function         The function to start threads at
                                      (including main thread if
                                      main_thread_returns).
    \param[in] arg                    An optional argument for start_function().

    \return  TMPI_FAILURE on failure, TMPI_SUCCESS on succes (after all
             threads have finished if main_thread_returns=true).  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Init_fn(int main_thread_returns, int N,
                 tMPI_Affinity_strategy aff_strategy,
                 void (*start_function)(void*), void *arg);





/** get the number of threads from the command line

    can be called before tMPI_Init()

    \param[in]  argc                    argc from main()
    \param[in]  argv                    argv from main()
    \param[in]  optname                 name of the argument specifying the
                                        number of threads to run. If this is
                                        NULL, this function will read the first
                                        argument and interpret it as the number
                                        of threads.
    \param[out] nthreads                the number of threads

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Get_N(int *argc, char ***argv, const char *optname, int *nthreads);



/** Waits for all other threads to finish and cleans up

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Finalize(void);


/** Just kills all threads.

    Not really neccesary because exit() would do that for us anyway.

    \param[in] comm         Comm to kill threads for
    \param[in] errorcode    Error code to exit with

    \return Never returns. */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Abort(tMPI_Comm comm, int errorcode);

/** whether tMPI_Init, but not yet tMPI_Finalize, has been run

    \param[out] flag     Set to TRUE if tMPI_Init() has been called,
                         FALSE if not.

    \return     always returns TMPI_SUCCESS. */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Initialized(int *flag);

/** Determine whether tMPI_Finalize has been run.

    \param[out] flag        Set to TRUE if tMPI_Finalize() has been
                            called, FALSE if not.

    \return     always returns TMPI_SUCCESS.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Finalized(int *flag);
/** \} */









/*! \name Error handling functions
 \{ */
/** Create an error handler object from a function.

    \param[in]  function        The function to make an error handler of.
    \param[out] errhandler      The error handler.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Create_errhandler(tMPI_Errhandler_fn *function,
                           tMPI_Errhandler    *errhandler);


/** Free the error handler object.

    \param[in] errhandler       The error handler.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Errhandler_free(tMPI_Errhandler *errhandler);

/** Set the error handler.

    \param[in] comm         the communicator to set the error handler for.
    \param[in] errhandler   the error handler.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_set_errhandler(tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Errhandler errhandler);

/** get the error handler.

    Gets the error handler associated with a comm

    \param[in]  comm         the communicator to get the error handler for.
    \param[out] errhandler   the error handler.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_get_errhandler(tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Errhandler *errhandler);

/** get the error string associated with an error code.

    The length of the error string will never exceed TMPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING.

    \param[in]  errorcode   The error code.
    \param[out] string      The pre-allocated char pointer to output to.
    \param[out] resultlen   The length of the error string. Will
                            never be longer than TMPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Error_string(int errorcode, char *string, size_t *resultlen);
/** \} */








/*! \name Environment query functions
 \{ */
/** returns string with thread number.

    \param[out] name        Pre-allocated string to output name to (will not
                            be longer than TMPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME).
    \param[out] resultlen   The length of the output. Note that this is an
                            int instead of a size_t because the MPI standard
                            for some reason defines all sizes as int

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Get_processor_name(char *name, int *resultlen);

/** get a time value as a double, in seconds.

    \return time value.
 */
TMPI_EXPORT
double tMPI_Wtime(void);
/** get the resolution of tMPI_Wtime as a double, in seconds

    \return time resolution. */
TMPI_EXPORT
double tMPI_Wtick(void);

#ifndef DOXYGEN
#define tMPI_This_threadnr() (int)(tMPI_Get_current() - threads)
#else
/** Get the thread number of this thread.
    Mostly for debugging.

    \return the global thread number. */
int tMPI_This_Threadnr(void);
#endif

/** \} */









/*! \name tMPI_Group functions
 \{ */
/** Get the size (number of members) of a group.

    \param[in]  group       The group.
    \param[out] size        Size.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Group_size(tMPI_Group group, int *size);

/** Get the rank of a thread in a group

    \param[in]  group       The group.
    \param[out] rank        Variable for the rank, or TMPI_UNDEFINED
                            if not in group.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Group_rank(tMPI_Group group, int *rank);

/** Create a new group as a the collection of threads with given ranks.

    \param[in] group        The group from which the ranks are taken.
    \param[in] n            The number of new group members.
    \param[in] ranks        The ranks of the threads to add to the new group.
    \param[out] newgroup    The new group.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Group_incl(tMPI_Group group, int n, int *ranks, tMPI_Group *newgroup);

/** Get a pointer to the group in the comm.

    \param[in] comm         The comm from which to take the group.
    \param[out] group       The comm's group.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_group(tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Group *group);

/** De-allocate a group

    \param[in] group        The group to de-allocate.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Group_free(tMPI_Group *group);
/*! \} */







/*! \name tMPI_Comm functions
 \{ */
/** Get the comm size (nr. of threads).

    \param[in] comm         The comm to query.
    \param[out] size        The comm size.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_size(tMPI_Comm comm, int *size);

/** get the rank in comm of the current process

    \param[in]  comm        The comm to query.
    \param[out] rank        Thread rank in comm.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_rank(tMPI_Comm comm, int *rank);

/** Compare two comms. Returns TMPI_IDENT if the two comms point to
    the same underlying comm structure, TMPI_CONGRUENT if all
    members appear in the both comms in the same order, TMPI_SIMILAR
    if both comms have the smae members but not in the same order, or
    TMPI_UNEQUAL if the comms have different members.

    \param[in]  comm1        The first comm to compare.
    \param[in]  comm2        The second comm to compare.
    \param[out] result       The output result, one of the values
                             described above.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_compare(tMPI_Comm comm1, tMPI_Comm comm2, int *result);


/** De-allocate a comm

    Collective function.

    \param[in] comm         The comm to free.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_free(tMPI_Comm *comm);

/** Create a comm based on group membership.

    Collective function that creates a new comm containing only proceses
    that are members of the given group.

    \param[in]  comm        The originating comm.
    \param[in]  group       The group of threads to create a comm from.
    \param[out] newcomm     The new comm.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_create(tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Group group, tMPI_Comm *newcomm);

/** Split up a group into same-colored sub-groups ordered by key.

    This is the main comm creation function: it's a collective call that takes
    a color and a key from each process, and arranges all threads that
    call tMPI_Split() withe the same color together into a comm.

    The rank in the new group will be based on the value given in key.

    Passing TMPI_UNDEFINED as a color will result in the thread not being
    part of any group, and getting TMPI_COMM_NULL back in newcomm.

    \param[in]  comm        The originating comm.
    \param[in]  color       This thread's color (determines which comm it will
                            be in). Giving TMPI_UNDEFINED will result in
                            this thread not being in any group.
    \param[in]  key         This thread's key (determines rank).
    \param[out] newcomm     The new comm.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_split(tMPI_Comm comm, int color, int key, tMPI_Comm *newcomm);

/** Make a duplicate of a comm.

    Collective function.

    \param[in] comm         The originating comm.
    \param[in] newcomm      The new comm.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Comm_dup(tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Comm *newcomm);
/*! \} */








/*! \name Topology functions
 \{ */
/* topology functions */
/** Check what type of topology the comm has.

    \param[in] comm         The comm to query
    \param[out] status      The type of topology.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Topo_test(tMPI_Comm comm, int *status);

/** Get the dimensionality of a comm with a topology.

    \param[in] comm         The comm to query.
    \param[out] ndims       The number of dimensions.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */

TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cartdim_get(tMPI_Comm comm, int *ndims);
/** Get the size and pbc a of a comm with a Cartesian topology has.

    \param[in]  comm        The comm to query.
    \param[in]  maxdims     The maximum number of dimensions in the periods
                            and coords parameter.
    \param[out] dims        The number of dimensions.
    \param[out] periods     The periodicity in each dimension.
    \param[out] coords      The number of coordinates in each dimension.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */

TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_get(tMPI_Comm comm, int maxdims, int *dims, int *periods,
                  int *coords);


/** Get rank that a specific set of process coordinates has in
    a Cartesian topology.

    \param[in]  comm        The comm to query.
    \param[in]  coords      The coordinates in each dimension.
    \param[out] rank        The rank associated with the coordinates.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_rank(tMPI_Comm comm, int *coords, int *rank);

/** Get coordinates of a process rank in a Cartesian topology.

    \param[in]  comm        The comm to query.
    \param[in]  rank        The rank associated with the coordinates.
    \param[in]  maxdims     The maximum number of dimensions in the coords
                            parameter.
    \param[out] coords      The coordinates in each dimension.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_coords(tMPI_Comm comm, int rank, int maxdims, int *coords);

/** Get optimal rank this process would have in a Cartesian topology.

    \param[in]  comm        The comm to query.
    \param[in]  ndims       The number of dimensions.
    \param[in]  dims        The size in each dimension.
    \param[in]  periods     The periodicity in each dimension.

    \param[out] newrank     The rank the thread would have given the topology.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_map(tMPI_Comm comm, int ndims, int *dims, int *periods,
                  int *newrank);

/** Create a comm with a Cartesian topology.

    \param[in]  comm_old    The originating comm.
    \param[in]  ndims       The number of dimensions.
    \param[in]  dims        The size in each dimension.
    \param[in]  periods     The periodicity in each dimension.
    \param[in]  reorder     Whether to allow reordering of the threads
                            according to tMPI_Cart_map().
    \param[out] comm_cart   The new comm with Cartesian topology.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_create(tMPI_Comm comm_old, int ndims, int *dims, int *periods,
                     int reorder, tMPI_Comm *comm_cart);

/** Create a comms that are sub-spaces of the Cartesian topology communicator.
    Works like a MPI_Comm_split() for the Cartesian dimensions specified
    as false in remain_dims.

    \param[in]  comm        The originating comm with Cartesian topology.
    \param[in]  remain_dims An Boolean array that decides whether a specific
                            dimensionality should remain in newcomm (if true),
                            or should be split up (if false).
    \param[out] newcomm     The new split communicator

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Cart_sub(tMPI_Comm comm, int *remain_dims, tMPI_Comm *newcomm);

/*! \} */








/*! \name Data type manipulation functions
 \{ */
/** Create a contiguous data type (the only type possible right now).

    Creates a datatype that is a vector of oldtype.

    \param[in]  count       The number of oldtype types in the new type.
    \param[in]  oldtype     The old data type.
    \param[out] newtype     The new data type (still needs to be committed).
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Type_contiguous(int count, tMPI_Datatype oldtype,
                         tMPI_Datatype *newtype);


/** Make a data type ready for use.

    \param[in,out] datatype  The new datatype.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Type_commit(tMPI_Datatype *datatype);
/*! \} */








/*! \name Point-to-point communication functions
 \{ */

/* blocking transfers. The actual transfer (copy) is done on the receiving end
    (so that the receiver's cache already contains the data that it presumably
     will use soon).  */
/** Send message; blocks until buf is reusable.

    \param[in]  buf         The buffer with data to send.
    \param[in]  count       The number of items to send.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items in buf.
    \param[in]  dest        The rank of the destination thread.
    \param[in]  tag         The message tag.
    \param[in]  comm        The shared communicator.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Send(void* buf, int count, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int dest,
              int tag, tMPI_Comm comm);

/** Receive message; blocks until buf is filled.

    \param[out] buf         The buffer for data to receive.
    \param[in]  count       The maximum number of items to receive.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items in buf.
    \param[in]  source      The rank of the source thread (or TMPI_ANY_SOURCE).
    \param[in]  tag         The message tag (or TMPI_ANY_TAG).
    \param[in]  comm        The shared communicator.
    \param[out] status      The message status.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Recv(void* buf, int count, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int source,
              int tag, tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Status *status);

/** Send & receive message at the same time.

    Blocks until recvbuf is filled, and sendbuf is ready for reuse.

    \param[in]  sendbuf     The buffer with data to send.
    \param[in]  sendcount   The number of items to send.
    \param[in]  sendtype    The data type of the items in send buf.
    \param[in]  dest        The rank of the destination thread.
    \param[in]  sendtag     The send message tag.
    \param[out] recvbuf     The buffer for data to receive.
    \param[in]  recvcount   The maximum number of items to receive.
    \param[in]  recvtype    The data type of the items in recvbuf.
    \param[in]  source      The rank of the source thread (or TMPI_ANY_SOURCE).
    \param[in]  recvtag     The recveive message tag (or TMPI_ANY_TAG).
    \param[in]  comm        The shared communicator.
    \param[out] status      The received message status.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Sendrecv(void *sendbuf, int sendcount, tMPI_Datatype sendtype,
                  int dest, int sendtag, void *recvbuf, int recvcount,
                  tMPI_Datatype recvtype, int source, int recvtag,
                  tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Status *status);

/* async send/recv. The actual transfer is done on the receiving
    end, during tMPI_Wait, tMPI_Waitall or tMPI_Test. For tMPI_Waitall,
    the incoming messages are processed in the order they come in.  */

/** Initiate sending a message, non-blocking.

    This makes the buffer available to be received. The contents of buf
    should not be touched before the transmission is finished with
    tMPI_Wait(), tMPI_Test() or tMPI_Waitall().


    \param[in]  buf         The buffer with data to send.
    \param[in]  count       The number of items to send.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items in buf.
    \param[in]  dest        The rank of the destination thread.
    \param[in]  tag         The message tag.
    \param[in]  comm        The shared communicator.
    \param[out] request     The request object that can be used in tMPI_Wait(),
                            tMPI_Test, etc.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Isend(void* buf, int count, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int dest,
               int tag, tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Request *request);

/** Initiate receiving a message.

    This makes the buffer available to be filled with data. The contents of
    buf should not be relied on before the transmission is finished with
    tMPI_Wait(), tMPI_Test() or tMPI_Waitall().

    \param[out] buf         The buffer for data to receive.
    \param[in]  count       The maximum number of items to receive.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items in buf.
    \param[in]  source      The rank of the source thread (or TMPI_ANY_SOURCE).
    \param[in]  tag         The message tag (or TMPI_ANY_TAG).
    \param[in]  comm        The shared communicator.
    \param[out] request     The request object that can be used in tMPI_Wait(),
                            tMPI_Test, etc.
    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Irecv(void* buf, int count, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int source,
               int tag, tMPI_Comm comm, tMPI_Request *request);




/** Test whether a message is transferred.

    \param[in,out]  request The request obtained wit tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     flag    A flag set to TRUE(1) if the request is finished,
                            FALSE(0) otherwise.
    \param[out]     status  Message status (can be set to TMPI_STATUS_IGNORE).

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Test(tMPI_Request *request, int *flag, tMPI_Status *status);

/** Wait until a message is transferred.

    \param[in,out]  request The request obtained wit tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     status  Message status.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Wait(tMPI_Request *request, tMPI_Status *status);




/** Wait until several messages are transferred.

    \param[in]      count               The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     array_of_statuses   List of count message statuses (can
                                        be set to TMPI_STATUSES_IGNORE).

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Waitall(int count, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests,
                 tMPI_Status *array_of_statuses);

/** Test whether several messages are transferred.

    \param[in]      count               The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     flag                Whether all requests have completed.
    \param[out]     array_of_statuses   List of count message statuses (can
                                        be set to TMPI_STATUSES_IGNORE).

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Testall(int count, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests, int *flag,
                 tMPI_Status *array_of_statuses);

/** Wait until one of several messages is transferred.

    \param[in]      count               The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     index               Index of the request that has
                                        completed.
    \param[out]     status              Pointer to tMPI_Status object
                                        associated with completed request.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Waitany(int count, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests,
                 int *index, tMPI_Status *status);

/** Test whether one of several messages is transferred.

    \param[in]      count               The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     index               Index of the request that has
                                        completed.
    \param[out]     flag                Whether any request has completed.
    \param[out]     status              Pointer to tMPI_Status object
                                        associated with completed request.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Testany(int count, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests,
                 int *index, int *flag, tMPI_Status *status);

/** Wait until some of several messages are transferred. Waits until at least
    one message is transferred.

    \param[in]      incount             The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     outcount            Number of completed requests
    \param[out]     array_of_indices    Array of ints that gets filled with
                                        the indices of the completed requests.
    \param[out]     array_of_statuses   List of count message statuses (can
                                        be set to TMPI_STATUSES_IGNORE).

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Waitsome(int incount, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests,
                  int *outcount, int *array_of_indices,
                  tMPI_Status *array_of_statuses);

/** Test whether some of several messages are transferred.

    \param[in]      incount             The number of requests
    \param[in,out]  array_of_requests   List of count requests obtained with
                                        tMPI_Isend()/tMPI_Irecv().
    \param[out]     outcount            Number of completed requests
    \param[out]     array_of_indices    Array of ints that gets filled with
                                        the indices of the completed requests.
    \param[out]     array_of_statuses   List of count message statuses (can
                                        be set to TMPI_STATUSES_IGNORE).

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Testsome(int incount, tMPI_Request *array_of_requests,
                  int *outcount, int *array_of_indices,
                  tMPI_Status *array_of_statuses);






/** get the number of actually transferred items from a receive
    status.

    \param[in]  status      The status.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type which was received.
    \param[out] count       The number of items actually received.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Get_count(tMPI_Status *status, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int *count);
/*! \} */








/*! \name Synchronization functions
 \{ */
/** Block until all threads in the comm call this function.

    \param[in]  comm    The comm object.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Barrier(tMPI_Comm comm);
/*! \} */







/*! \name Multicast communication functions
 \{ */
/** Broadcast from one thread to all others in comm.

    Collective function; data is transferred from root's buffer to all others'
    buffer.

    \param[in,out]  buffer      The buffer to send from (root)/receive from
                                (other threads).
    \param[in]      count       The number of items to send/receive.
    \param[in]      datatype    The type of the items to send/receive.
    \param[in]      root        The rank of the sending thread.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Bcast(void* buffer, int count, tMPI_Datatype datatype, int root,
               tMPI_Comm comm);

/** Gather data from all threads in comm to root.

    Collective function; assumes that all data is received in blocks of
    recvcount.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer for all threads (root may
                                specify TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case it
                                transfers nothing to itself).
    \param[in]      sendcount   The number of items to send for all threads.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items to send.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receiving buffer (for root thread).
    \param[in]      recvcount   The number of items to receive (for root).
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of the items to receive (for root).
    \param[in]      root        The rank of root.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Gather(void* sendbuf, int sendcount, tMPI_Datatype sendtype,
                void* recvbuf, int recvcount, tMPI_Datatype recvtype, int root,
                tMPI_Comm comm);


/** Gather irregularly laid out data from all processes in comm to root.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer for all threads (root may
                                specify TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case it
                                transfers nothing to itself).
    \param[in]      sendcount   The number of items to send for all threads.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items to send.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receiving buffer (for root thread).
    \param[in]      recvcounts  The list of number of items to receive (for
                                root).
    \param[in]      displs      The list of displacements in recvbuf to
                                receive data in (for root).
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of the items to receive (for root).
    \param[in]      root        The rank of root.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Gatherv(void* sendbuf, int sendcount, tMPI_Datatype sendtype,
                 void* recvbuf, int *recvcounts, int *displs,
                 tMPI_Datatype recvtype, int root, tMPI_Comm comm);


/** Spread parts of sendbuf to all processes in comm from root.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer for root.
    \param[in]      sendcount   The number of items for root to send to each
                                thread.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items root sends.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receiving buffer for all receiving threads
                                (root may specify TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case
                                it transmits nothing to itself).
    \param[in]      recvcount   The number of items recvbuf can receive.
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of items to receive.
    \param[in]      root        The rank of root.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Scatter(void* sendbuf, int sendcount, tMPI_Datatype sendtype,
                 void* recvbuf, int recvcount, tMPI_Datatype recvtype, int root,
                 tMPI_Comm comm);

/** Spread irregularly laid out parts of sendbuf to all processes
            in comm from root.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer for root.
    \param[in]      sendcounts  List of the number of items for root to send
                                to each thread.
    \param[in]      displs      List of displacements in sendbuf from which
                                to start transmission to each thread.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items root sends.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receiving buffer for all receiving threads
                                (root may specify TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case
                                it transmits nothing to itself).
    \param[in]      recvcount   The number of items recvbuf can receive.
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of items to receive.
    \param[in]      root        The rank of root.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Scatterv(void* sendbuf, int *sendcounts, int *displs,
                  tMPI_Datatype sendtype, void* recvbuf, int recvcount,
                  tMPI_Datatype recvtype, int root, tMPI_Comm comm);


/** Spread out parts of sendbuf to all processes from all processes in
           comm.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer.
    \param[in]      sendcount   The number of items for to send to each thread.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items to send.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receive buffer for all threads.
    \param[in]      recvcount   The number of items recvbuf can receive per
                                thread.
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of items to receive.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Alltoall(void* sendbuf, int sendcount, tMPI_Datatype sendtype,
                  void* recvbuf, int recvcount, tMPI_Datatype recvtype,
                  tMPI_Comm comm);


/** Spread out irregularly laid out parts of sendbuf to all
           processes from all processes in comm.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The send buffer.
    \param[in]      sendcounts  List of the number of items for to send to
                                each thread.
    \param[in]      sdispls     List of the displacements in sendbuf of items
                                to send to each thread.
    \param[in]      sendtype    The type of the items to send.
    \param[out]     recvbuf     The receive buffer for all threads.
    \param[in]      recvcounts  List of the number of items recvbuf can
                                receive from each thread.
    \param[in]      rdispls     List of the displacements in recvbuf of items
                                to receive from each thread.
    \param[in]      recvtype    The type of items to receive.
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Alltoallv(void* sendbuf, int *sendcounts, int *sdispls,
                   tMPI_Datatype sendtype, void* recvbuf, int *recvcounts,
                   int *rdispls, tMPI_Datatype recvtype, tMPI_Comm comm);

/*! \} */









/*! \name Reduce functions
 \{ */
/** Do an operation between all locally held buffers on all items in the
    buffers, and send the results to root.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]  sendbuf     The operand parameters. Root may specify
                            TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case recvbuf will hold
                            the operand parameters.
    \param[out] recvbuf     The result buffer at root.
    \param[in]  count       The number of items to do operation on.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items.
    \param[in]  op          The operation to perform.
    \param[in]  root        The root thread (which is to receive the results).
    \param[in]  comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Reduce(void* sendbuf, void* recvbuf, int count,
                tMPI_Datatype datatype, tMPI_Op op, int root, tMPI_Comm comm);



/** Do an operation between all locally held buffers on all items in the
    buffers and broadcast the results.

    Collective function.


    \param[in]  sendbuf     The operand parameters. Any process may specify
                            TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case recvbuf will hold
                            the operand parameters for that process.
    \param[in,out] recvbuf  The result buffer.
    \param[in]  count       The number of items to do operation on.
    \param[in]  datatype    The data type of the items.
    \param[in]  op          The operation to perform.
    \param[in]  comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Allreduce(void* sendbuf, void* recvbuf, int count,
                   tMPI_Datatype datatype, tMPI_Op op, tMPI_Comm comm);

/** Do an tMPI_Reduce, but with the following assumption:
    recvbuf points to a valid buffer in all calling threads, or
    sendbuf has the value TMPI_IN_PLACE (in which case the values of
    sendbuf may be changed in that thread).

    This avoids unnecesary memory allocations associated with the normal
    tMPI_Reduce.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]      sendbuf     The operand parameters (or TMPI_IN_PLACE,
                                in which case the operand parameters will
                                be in recvbuf).
    \param[in,out]  recvbuf     The result buffer.
    \param[in]      count       The number of items to do operation on.
    \param[in]      datatype    The data type of the items.
    \param[in]      op          The operation to perform.
    \param[in]      root        The root thread (which is to receive
                                the final results).
    \param[in]      comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Reduce_fast(void* sendbuf, void* recvbuf, int count,
                     tMPI_Datatype datatype, tMPI_Op op, int root,
                     tMPI_Comm comm);

/** Do a partial reduce operation, based on rank: the results of the
    reduction operation of ranks 0 - i will be put in the recvbuf of
    rank i.

    Collective function.

    \param[in]     sendbuf     The operand parameters. All ranks may specify
                               TMPI_IN_PLACE, in which case recvbuf will hold
                               the operand parameters.
    \param[in,out] recvbuf     The result buffer.
    \param[in]     count       The number of items to do operation on.
    \param[in]     datatype    The data type of the items.
    \param[in]     op          The operation to perform.
    \param[in]     comm        The communicator.

    \return  TMPI_SUCCESS on success, TMPI_FAILURE on failure.  */
TMPI_EXPORT
int tMPI_Scan(void* sendbuf, void* recvbuf, int count,
              tMPI_Datatype datatype, tMPI_Op op, tMPI_Comm comm);


/*! \} */



#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* closing extern "C" */
#endif

#endif /* TMPI_TMPI_H_ */