Could you be more specific about which platforms the fixed width conversion fails? And what is the compile error?

uint_8 is unsigned char on some platforms see e.g. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/integer leading to the error with the redefinition

Yes, just missed that one to revert :)

The errors that you see now in the CI were the ones I discovered. Locally I couldn't reproduce it, but I also didn't check other versions.

long long unsigned int is somehow not matched here.

C standard seems to only guarantee at least 64 bit width of unsigned long long not exactly equal, see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types.

However I couldn't find anything hinting a non 64-bit width on these platforms.

For integers, to avoid any ambiguity I'd suggest providing interfaces only for fixed-width integers with the exception of int. We shouldn't (and don't) use long int, long long int, etc, in DOLFINx.

Regarding the kahip interface, does anyone remember why we are we using unsigned long long there?

Edit: I missed the link to the kahip source. Does kahip have a native C++ interface? Seems odd to have to go through a C interface.

Don't think there is any other interface, at least it is the only occurrence of ParHIPPartitionKWay in the repo 😄

Couldn't get the long long unsigned int to work on all platforms. Switched to the fixed width overloads and made the single occasion of the long long unsigned int for Kahip explicit with MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG

This is the right approach if KaHiP is really using long long unsigned underneath. Still odd they don't provide a native C++ call...

Looks good to me. @garth-wells you still had an open review comment about whether it's best just to use the MPI types directly in some cases. Could you comment further on that now?

We should consider fixed width floats when we move to C++23 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/floating-point

This is the right approach if KaHiP is really using long long unsigned underneath. Still odd they don't provide a native C++ call...

https://github.com/KaHIP/KaHIP/blob/master/parallel/parallel_src/interface/parhip_interface.h#L15
KaHiP uses unsigned long long for its interface and also internally.