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MPI_Attr_put(3OpenMPI)													    MPI_Attr_put(3OpenMPI)

NAME
       MPI_Attr_put - Stores attribute value associated with a key -- use of this routine is deprecated.

SYNTAX
C Syntax
       #include <mpi.h>
       int MPI_Attr_put(MPI_Comm comm, int keyval, void *attribute_val)

Fortran Syntax
       INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
       MPI_ATTR_PUT(COMM, KEYVAL, ATTRIBUTE_VAL, IERROR)
	    INTEGER   COMM, KEYVAL, ATTRIBUTE_VAL, IERROR

INPUT PARAMETERS
       comm	 Communicator to which attribute will be attached (handle).

       keyval	 Key value, as returned by MPI_KEYVAL_CREATE (integer).

       attribute_val
		 Attribute value.

OUTPUT PARAMETER
       IERROR	 Fortran only: Error status (integer).

DESCRIPTION
       Note that use of this routine is deprecated as of MPI-2. Please use MPI_Comm_set_attr instead.

       This deprecated routine is not available in C++.

       MPI_Attr_put stores the stipulated attribute value attribute_val for subsequent retrieval by MPI_Attr_get. If the value is already present,
       then the outcome is as if MPI_Attr_delete was first called to delete the previous value (and the callback function delete_fn was executed),
       and  a  new value was next stored. The call is erroneous if there is no key with value keyval; in particular MPI_KEYVAL_INVALID is an erro-
       neous key value. The call will fail if the delete_fn function returned an error code other than MPI_SUCCESS.

NOTES
       Values of the permanent attributes MPI_TAG_UB, MPI_HOST, MPI_IO, and MPI_WTIME_IS_GLOBAL may not be changed.

       The type of the attribute value depends on whether C or Fortran is being used. In C, an attribute value is a pointer (void *); in  Fortran,
       it  is a single integer (not a pointer, since Fortran has no pointers and there are systems for which a pointer does not fit in an integer,
       e.g., any  32-bit address system that uses 64 bits for Fortran DOUBLE PRECISION).

       If an attribute is already present, the delete function (specified when the corresponding keyval was created) will be called.

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++ func-
       tions  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.

SEE ALSO
       MPI_Comm_set_attr

Open MPI 1.2							  September 2006					    MPI_Attr_put(3OpenMPI)