I believe the problem is in the following source code line (file:ompi_datatype_args.c, line:221):
https://bitbucket.org/ompiteam/ompi-svn-mirror/src/v1.8/ompi/datatype/ompi_datatype_args.c?at=v1.8#cl-221 I think you should just remove that bogus line, and that's all. [dalcinl@kw2060 openmpi]$ cat type_hindexed_block.c #include <mpi.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { MPI_Aint disps[] = {0}; MPI_Datatype datatype; MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); MPI_Type_create_hindexed_block(1, 1, disps, MPI_BYTE, &datatype); MPI_Finalize(); return 0; } [dalcinl@kw2060 openmpi]$ mpicc type_hindexed_block.c [dalcinl@kw2060 openmpi]$ ./a.out [kw2060:20304] *** Process received signal *** [kw2060:20304] Signal: Segmentation fault (11) [kw2060:20304] Signal code: Address not mapped (1) [kw2060:20304] Failing at address: 0x6a [kw2060:20304] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x327c40f750] [kw2060:20304] [ 1] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x327bc94126] [kw2060:20304] [ 2] /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/1.8.0/lib/libmpi.so.1(ompi_datatype_set_args+0x7f1)[0x7f8f0158b62a] [kw2060:20304] [ 3] /home/devel/mpi/openmpi/1.8.0/lib/libmpi.so.1(MPI_Type_create_hindexed_block+0x24d)[0x7f8f015cedc8] [kw2060:20304] [ 4] ./a.out[0x40080c] [kw2060:20304] [ 5] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x327bc21d65] [kw2060:20304] [ 6] ./a.out[0x4006f9] [kw2060:20304] *** End of error message *** Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (UNL/CONICET) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1016) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169 _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel