MPI_Win_fromint(3)
π MPI_Win_fromint(3) π
okay bestie so you found a page from the MPI manual and it's honestly a tiny little snack β like, one function, one job, and it delivers. no cap.
β¨ NAME β¨
MPI_Win_fromint β converts an integer handle to MPI_Win
like. that's it. that's the whole personality. it takes an int and hands you back a window handle, periodt. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
MPI_Win MPI_Win_fromint(int win)
look at that signature. so clean. so demure. π
π¦ INPUT PARAMETERS π¦
winβ win (integer)
yeah bestie it's literally called win and it's literally an integer, the naming department ate and left no crumbs π
π THREAD AND INTERRUPT SAFETY π
good news first: this routine is thread-safe. that means you can lowkey just call it from a bunch of threads at once and you do not need to bring your own thread locks. no user-provided locking, none, you're free π
but now the β¨ plot twist β¨ β it is not interrupt safe. not even a little.
and why? typically because of memory allocation routines like malloc or other non-MPICH runtime routines, which are themselves not interrupt-safe. so if you're running around interrupting things while this is mid-malloc, that's on you bestie π
fr fr: thread-safe? yes. interrupt safe? absolutely not. do not play with that. π
okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated π this was the MPI manual's take on MPI_Win_fromint(3), dated 4/10/2026 β same title on the way out as on the way in, which is honestly iconic of it. go forth and convert your integers. slay. πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixos 26.05: mpich 5.0.1
- ubuntu stonking: mpich-doc 5.0.1-9 Β· other
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms