9.5. Deprecation warnings while compiling MPI applications

If you see deprecation warnings when compiling MPI applications, it is because your application is symbols / functions that are deprecated in MPI. For example:

shell$ mpicc deprecated-example.c -c
deprecated-example.c: In function 'foo':
deprecated-example.c:6:5: warning: 'MPI_Attr_delete' is deprecated: MPI_Attr_delete was deprecated in MPI-2.0; use MPI_Comm_delete_attr instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
     MPI_Attr_delete(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 2);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from deprecated-example.c:2:
/usr/local/openmpi/include/mpi.h:2601:20: note: declared here
 OMPI_DECLSPEC  int MPI_Attr_delete(MPI_Comm comm, int keyval)
                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Note that the deprecation compiler warnings tells you how to upgrade your code to avoid the deprecation warnings. In this example, it advises you to use MPI_Comm_delete_attr() instead of MPI_Attr_delete().

Also, note that even if Open MPI was configured with --enable-mpi1-compatibility to re-enable removed MPI-1 symbols, you will still get compiler warnings when you use the removed symbols. For example:

shell$ mpicc deleted-example.c -c
deleted-example.c: In function 'foo':
deleted-example.c:8:5: warning: 'MPI_Address' is deprecated: MPI_Address was removed in MPI-3.0; use MPI_Get_address instead. [-Wdeleted-declarations]
     MPI_Address(buffer, &address);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from deleted-example.c:2:
/usr/local/openmpi/include/mpi.h:2689:20: note: declared here
 OMPI_DECLSPEC  int MPI_Address(void *location, MPI_Aint *address)
                    ^~~~~~~~~~~