.\"Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_Comm_group 3 "Dec 08, 2009" "1.4" "Open MPI"
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Comm_group \fP \- Returns the group associated with a communicator.  

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Comm_group(MPI_Comm \fIcomm\fP, MPI_Group *\fIgroup\fP)

.SH Fortran Syntax
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INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_COMM_GROUP(\fICOMM, GROUP, IERROR\fP)
  	INTEGER	\fICOMM, GROUP, IERROR\fP 

.SH C++ Syntax
.nf
#include <mpi.h>
Group Comm::Get_group() const

.SH INPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
comm
Communicator.

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS
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.TP 1i
group
Group in communicator (handle).
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer). 

.SH DESCRIPTION
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If the communicator is an intercommunicator (enables communication between two groups of processes), this function returns the local group.  To return the remote group, use the MPI_Comm_remote_group function. 

.SH 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.
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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.