SHMEM_INFO_GET_NAME(3)

✨ NAME ✨

shmem_info_get_name — bestie, this routine literally just hands you the vendor defined character string 💖 no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

C or C++:

#include <mpp/shmem.h>

void shmem_info_get_name(char *name)

Fortran:

include 'mpp/shmem.fh'
SHMEM_INFO_GET_NAME(NAME)
CHARACTER *(*)NAME

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so shmem_info_get_name() 🦋 — this routine returns the vendor defined character string, and the size of that string is set by the constant SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN.

here's the deal, and listen closely:

• the program calling this function is the one who prepares the memory of size SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN
• then the implementation copies the string of size at most SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN into it

now the C vs Fortran tea ☕:

• in C, the string is terminated by a null character.
• in Fortran, a string of size less than SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN gets padded with blank characters up to size SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN.

💀 and if the implementation copies a string of size greater than SHMEM_MAX_NAME_LEN? that results in an undefined behavior. not cute. not iconic. just chaos. avoid.

also for the record: multiple invocations of the routine in an OpenSHMEM program always return the same string 🫶 consistency queen. and for a given library implementation, the major and minor version returned by these calls is consistent with the compile-time constants defined in its shmem.h.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• intro_shmem(3)
• shmem_my_pe(3)
• shmem_init(3)

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

2003-2026, The Open MPI Community

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 thanks for reading, mwah 💜 — this was the Open MPI version, dated Sep 10, 2026, and the manual page is SHMEM_INFO_GET_NAME(3) 🧚 ✨