| Re: F2003 complier, how far from us? |
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Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: DamianDamian Date: Aug 26, 2008 01:05
On Aug 25, 6:38 pm, rusi_pathan gmail.com> wrote:> On Aug 25, 4:47 pm, Damian rouson.net> wrote:
>>> On Aug 25, 1:35 pm, rusi_pathan gmail.com> wrote:>
>>>> F2003 complier, how far from us?
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>>> Cray and IBM Fortran compilers are almost complete w.r.t to the 2003
>>> standard but other vendors like Intel, Sun etc. are certainly behind.
>>> A good read would be
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>> With regards to the features in the OOP chapter of Metcalf, Reid &
>> Cohen, IBM's implementation is complete as far as I know. I have
>> written a few thousand lines of code that exercise nearly every
>> feature in that chapter.
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>> Damian
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> The sad part is that compilers from both Cray and IBM are platform
> specific/non-free and few people have access to them.
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> Intel and Sun OTOH offer free Fortran compilers which you can run on
> any x86 box running linux.
IBM's compiler also runs on Linux (in addition to AIX), but only when
Linux is installed on IBM processors. In a way, this is not too
different from Intel running on x86 (and AMD, which I think is binary
compatible with x86), but we just don't think of that as being
platform-specific since x86 processors are ubiquitous. Anyway, I
really wish IBM would support compilation on x86. It would make my
life a lot easier and expand their user base, but I guess it wouldn't
make as good a case for buying IBM hardware.
Damian
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