.\"Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_Type_commit 3 "Dec 08, 2009" "1.4" "Open MPI"
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Type_commit\fP \- Commits a data type.

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Type_commit(MPI_Datatype *\fIdatatype\fP)

.SH Fortran Syntax
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INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_TYPE_COMMIT(\fIDATATYPE, IERROR\fP)
	INTEGER	\fIDATATYPE, IERROR\fP 

.SH C++ Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
void Datatype::Commit()

.SH INPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
datatype
Data type (handle).

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer). 

.SH DESCRIPTION
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The commit operation commits the data type. A data type is the formal description of a communication buffer, not the content of that buffer. After a data type has been committed, it can be repeatedly reused to communicate the changing content of a buffer or, indeed, the content of different buffers, with different starting addresses.  
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\fBExample:\fP The following Fortran code fragment gives examples of using MPI_Type_commit. 
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    INTEGER type1, type2 
    CALL MPI_TYPE_CONTIGUOUS(5, MPI_REAL, type1, ierr) 
                  ! new type object created 
    CALL MPI_TYPE_COMMIT(type1, ierr) 
                  ! now type1 can be used for communication 
.fi
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If the data type specified in \fIdatatype\fP is already committed, it is equivalent to a no-op.

.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.