thomasse@seti.inria.fr (thomasset francois) (02/12/91)
Concerning standards I am interested in knowing the current state with the so called PCF proposal; for those who don't know this is (was?) a proposition of a standard for parallel extensions to FORTRAN77: DOALLs, parallel sections, critical sections,... (which are NOT in FORTRAN90) I belive it was originated by a meeting of machine vendors (IBM, CRAY, ALLIANT, others?) who wanted to bring some coherence into the forest of parallel dialects of FORTRAN. Now this proposal lies, as far as I know, in the hands of an ANSI X3H5 commitee; the last version I have of the proposal dates from August 1990. Can anybody give any news about the activities of this commitee? And by the way does anyone know about existing compilers (or projects of compilers) for this standard?
khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) (02/12/91)
....PCF "standard"
PCF was a group of vendors, working w/o charter from any standards
group. When they went to X3 (in order to get a charter) things weren't
as obvious as they might have been.
X3H5 exists, and is working on an abstract model and language bindings
to the model. Work is moving quickly, but the committee has not yet
published any public documents; those that are interested should
consider joining, or at least signing up for the discussion alias
From: Walter G. Rudd <rudd@fog.CS.ORST.EDU>
is the keeper of the lists.
x3h5-info@fog.CS.ORST.EDU
is the "discussion" list.
Bruce Leasure of Kuck and Associates is the chair (bleasure@kai.com).
X3H5's "product" will neither replace X3.9-1978 nor ISO DIS 1539
(Fortran 90, best number I can guess at just now), but will augment
them both.
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