Definition
MPI_Status represents the status of a reception operation, returned by receive operations (MPI_Recv), non-blocking operation wait (MPI_Wait, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Waitany and MPI_Waitsome) or test (MPI_Test, MPI_Testall, MPI_Testany and MPI_Testsome). In C the MPI_Status is a structure that contains at least 3 attributes: MPI_SOURCE, MPI_TAG and MPI_ERROR. There may be additional attributes that are implementation-specific. When the user has no use of the MPI_Status, they can pass the constant MPI_STATUS_IGNORE (or MPI_STATUSES_IGNORE for array of statuses).
In Fortran-90, the MPI status is represented with MPI_STATUS_SIZE.