If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is called to handle it. By default,
this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set ; the
predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned (in C and
Fortran; this error handler is less useful in with the C++ MPI bindings. The predefined error handler
MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS should be used in C++ if the error value needs to be recovered). Note that
MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.
All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick ) return an error value; C routines as the value of the
function and Fortran routines in the last argument. The C++ bindings for MPI do not return error values;
instead, error values are communicated by throwing exceptions of type MPI::Exception (but not by
default). Exceptions are only thrown if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .
Note that if the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in C++, while MPI functions will return upon an error,
there will be no way to recover what the actual error value was.
MPI_SUCCESS
- No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
MPI_ERR_ARG
- Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class.
This is typically a NULL pointer or other such error.
MPI_INFO_KEY
- This error class is associated with an error code that indicates that a null key, empty key, or
key that was longer than MPI_MAX_INFO_KEY characters was passed as an argument to an MPI function
where it was not allowed.
MPI_INFO_NOKEY
- This error class is associated with an error code that indicates that a key that was looked up
on an MPI_Info object and was not found.
MPI_ERR_INTERN
- An internal error has been detected. This is fatal. Please send a bug report to the LAM
mailing list (see http://www.lam-mpi.org/contact.php ).