Which version of Intel Fortran 1st had C Interop?
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From: James Tursa on 11 Dec 2009 18:55 Does anyone know which version of Intel Fortran was the first one to have C interop capability? James Tursa
From: Richard Maine on 11 Dec 2009 20:03 James Tursa <aclassyguywithaknotac(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know which version of Intel Fortran was the first one to > have C interop capability? I don't know the answer to your question, but I suspect that there are 2 different answers depending on exactly what you mean by the question. Namely 1. If you mean C interop capability as a general term, I suspect that goes back a long ways, perhaps to the first version. 2. You might mean specifically support of the f2003 ISO_C_BINDING module, in which case, I still suspect there might be two different answers depending on whether you mean the first version where they included anything from that module or the first version where they fully supported everything in it. I wouldn't be shocked if full support of everything in it might still be missing. After all, that module is an f2003 feature and it includes bits that depend on other f2003 features. F2003 procedure pointers come to mind. I don't recall whether Intel Fortran yet has f2003 procedure pointers, but if it doesn't, then it can't very well be said to fully support everything in the module. This relates to my plaint in a thread a while back where I expressed unhappiness with recent directions in Fortran standardization - in particular the notion, expressed rather strongly by some (well at least one, and I assume he isn't alone) proponents, that it is a collection of features for vendors to pick from. I think that there are integration matters that make it far harder to be sure of exactly what one is talking about if one cites individual features instead of the whole standard. I can easily imagine an f95 vendor claiming to support the ISO_C_BINDING module, but meaning only those parts of it that fit with the rest of his compiler, which might be different from the impression that such a claim might give to a user. Part of the reason that C interop was not done as an f95 TR was that it didn't separate out cleanly enough as a standalone feature; it has some clear standalone parts, but other things end up interacting a bit much with the rest of the language. It was originally proposed as am f95 TR, but that didn't work out (for several reasons, but this was one). -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Steve Lionel on 11 Dec 2009 21:15 On 12/11/2009 6:55 PM, James Tursa wrote: > Does anyone know which version of Intel Fortran was the first one to > have C interop capability? 10.0 was the first, though not everything worked right in that version. If you have specific questions, please ask in our user forum (link below). -- Steve Lionel Developer Products Division Intel Corporation Nashua, NH For email address, replace "invalid" with "com" User communities for Intel Software Development Products http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/ Intel Software Development Products Support http://software.intel.com/sites/support/ My Fortran blog http://www.intel.com/software/drfortran
From: James Tursa on 13 Dec 2009 12:56 On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:15:29 -0500, Steve Lionel <steve.lionel(a)intel.invalid> wrote: >On 12/11/2009 6:55 PM, James Tursa wrote: >> Does anyone know which version of Intel Fortran was the first one to >> have C interop capability? > >10.0 was the first, though not everything worked right in that version. >If you have specific questions, please ask in our user forum (link below). At this time I was mainly interested in the C_LOC() and C_F_POINTER() functions (per my earlier thread), but also have a general interest in learning/using other features as well. I will try the links you provided. Thanks. James Tursa
From: Steve Lionel on 14 Dec 2009 10:22
On 12/13/2009 12:56 PM, James Tursa wrote: > At this time I was mainly interested in the C_LOC() and C_F_POINTER() > functions (per my earlier thread), but also have a general interest in > learning/using other features as well. I will try the links you > provided. Thanks. Those two worked in 10.0. Procedure pointers, however, were not introduced until version 11.0. -- Steve Lionel Developer Products Division Intel Corporation Nashua, NH For email address, replace "invalid" with "com" User communities for Intel Software Development Products http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/ Intel Software Development Products Support http://software.intel.com/sites/support/ My Fortran blog http://www.intel.com/software/drfortran |