NAME¶

MPI_Type_size - Returns the number of bytes occupied by entries in a data type.

SYNTAX¶

C Syntax¶

#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Type_size(MPI_Datatype  datatype, int *size)

Fortran Syntax¶

INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_TYPE_SIZE( DATATYPE, SIZE, IERROR)
	INTEGER	 DATATYPE, SIZE, IERROR 

C++ Syntax¶

#include <mpi.h>
int Datatype::Get_size() const

INPUT PARAMETER¶

datatype

Datatype (handle).

OUTPUT PARAMETERS¶

size

Datatype size (integer).

IERROR

Fortran only: Error status (integer).

DESCRIPTION¶

MPI_Type_size returns the total size, in bytes, of the entries in the type signature associated with datatype; i.e., the total size of the data in a message that would be created with this datatype. Entries that occur multiple times in the datatype are counted with their multiplicity.

ERRORS¶

Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI:Exception object. Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.