Re: F2003 complier, how far from us?

On Aug 25, 6:38 pm, rusi_pathan <tabrez...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 25, 4:47 pm, Damian <dam...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 25, 1:35 pm, rusi_pathan <tabrez...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

F2003 complier, how far from us?

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

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.

Damian

The sad part is that compilers from both Cray and IBM are platform
specific/non-free and few people have access to them.

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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