Receive Buffer



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Receive Buffer

 

The receive buffer consists of receive bufferbuffer, receive storage sufficient to contain count consecutive entries of the type specified by datatype, starting at address buf. The length of the received message must be less than or equal to the length of the receive buffer. An overflow error occurs if all incoming data does overflow not fit, without truncation, into the receive buffer. We explain in Chapter gif how to check for errors. If a message that is shorter than the receive buffer arrives, then the incoming message is stored in the initial locations of the receive buffer, and the remaining locations are not modified.



Jack Dongarra
Fri Sep 1 06:16:55 EDT 1995