Re: Do different compilers produce different .mod files?

<bonzaboy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone
know if G95 .mod files should be compatible with other compilers? i
would have though so.

No. The .mod files are compiler-specific. Heck, it is even
compiler-specific whether there is such a thing as a .mod file. Putting
the necessary information in a .mod file is the most common
implementation scheme - enough so to have become a bit of a defacto
standard - but it is not the only scheme.

It has even happened that .mod files are incompatible between different
versions of the same compiler... just like it has happened that object
files have beeen simillarly incompatible. Vendors try to avoid such
version incompatibilities (because it makes life difficult for
customers, who then in turn make life difficult for the vendors), but it
has happened.

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