I'm trying to get BLAS and LAPACK to compile in Visual Studio using Intel's
Fortran compiler but it crashes at random places and I cannot get it to
build the whole project (nor would I trust the result even if it did happen
to complete one time!).

Has anyone else found Intel's Fortran compiler to be extremely unstable?
This is x86 Windows XP with VS 2005.

Jon Harrop wrote:

Did you try a current compiler, with -QxW -assume:protect_parens
-fp:precise ? Do you manage to make the compiler crash, or do you mean
run-time problems? What about 32- vs 64-bit compilation and OS? Did you
look up posts about substituting f90 intrinsics for attempts to get
equivalent results with old syntax?
I didn't see any guesses about your meaning.

In article newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>,
Tim Prince nospamcomputer.org> wrote:

It's not really a bug report, it's really an advertisement for his
consulting business.

-- greg

"Jon Harrop" ffconsultancy.com> wrote in message
news:0_Sdna4bYa5f7YfVnZ2dnUVZ8qfinZ2d@plusnet...

Do I guess correctly that it's a fortran vs. windows issue? Do you have
experience with VS 2005?

Jon Harrop wrote:

I've not found it to be unstable at all. The closest to "unstable" I've
had has been that just occasionally, after several tens of hours of
repeatedly running in debug mode with multiple crashes due to problems
in the code, the debugger starts being a bit weird (telling me variables
aren't defined, when I can see from the calculations it's doing that it
knows full well internally that they are). Shutting it down and starting
it up again has always fixed the problem, and it's never affected the
results.

On May 1, 9:33 pm, Jon Harrop ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

What exactly is the nature of the problem? Exact error message,
etc.? There will be a build log after each build with a link you can
click on.

Are you aware that Intel provides support for its products? Please
visit http://www.intel.com/support/performancetools/fortran/windows/
to get the assistance you need.

Steve Lionel

Greg Lindahl wrote:

Kinda of hard to see it as an advertisement (as a positive)

--

Gary Scott wrote:

Indeed. Maybe competing Fortran compiler vendors will be interested. ;-)

Catherine Rees Lay wrote:

Ron Ford wrote:

I use VS for C# and F# all the time but never any unmanaged code. I've tried
one of the managed Fortran compilers but the performance is awful (of
course). I'm about to try some unmanaged C/C++ as well, so we shall see...