Re: MPI and private methods in octave::load_save_system

[John W. Eaton]

On 2/13/19 11:11 AM, c. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Octave 5 the functions
>
>    do_load, do_save, read_binary_data, write_binary_data
>
> from load-save.cc have been transformed into private methods of the class
>    
>    octave::load_save_system
>    
> The MPI package relies on these functions to Send/Receive variables as MPI messages.
>
> Would it be possible to make these methods public so they can be accessed by 
> DLD functions?

Possibly, but I'd like to know how these functions are being used.  I 
don't see any of those functions being used in the source files found at 
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/mpi at revision

  changeset:   49:506cbb214007
  tag:         tip
  user:        Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden>
  date:        Mon Jan 01 17:14:51 2018 +0100
  summary:     Fix speeling errors in doc strings (bug #52766)

Am I looking at the correct package?

BTW, that's the best commit message I've seen in a while.  :-)

jwe