maxson@cfa.harvard.EDU (Charles Maxson) (11/19/86)
Does anyone know the current status of the ANSI Fortran 8x standard?
If so, could you mail or post a brief update on the expected timetable
of the X3J3 committee? Has the parallel processing constructs question
been resolved? When might a draft standard be available?
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>/***** hcx1:comp.lang.fortran / cfa!maxson / 1:04 pm Nov 19, 1986*/ >Does anyone know the current status of the ANSI Fortran 8x standard? >If so, could you mail or post a brief update on the expected timetable >of the X3J3 committee? Has the parallel processing constructs question >been resolved? When might a draft standard be available? >-- >-- Charles W. Maxson (617)495-7178 >-- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, > 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 >-- ARPA: maxson@cfa.HARVARD.EDU >-- UUCP: {seismo,ihnp4}!harvard!cfa!maxson >/* ---------- */ I am the alternate for Harris on the committee. It is currently being voted on to determine whether we should submit it to X3 (this vote is almost certainly going to be favorable). X3 will sit on it for from 3 to 6 months, then very likely approve it. Then it will go out for public review for (I think) 6 months. The committee must address every response from the "public", and if any changes are made it goes out for public review again, and so on. As to the parallel processing constructs, if you mean array operations, then they are still in. I might be able to mail you a copy of the draft standard, and at the very least can give you the address of someone who can for sure. If you are interested, let me know. In general, I am willing to discuss any Fortran 8X standards issues anyone wants to bring up. Bob Allison (305)973-5379 Harris Computer Systems Division 2101 W Cypress Creek Rd Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33309-1892 UUCP: {codes, allegra}!novavax!hcx1!boba
levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (11/24/86)
In article <129@hcx1.UUCP>, notes@hcx1.UUCP writes: > I am the alternate for Harris on the committee.... > In general, I am willing to discuss any Fortran 8X standards issues > anyone wants to bring up. > > Bob Allison (305)973-5379 > Harris Computer Systems Division Would it be possible to post a short summary of the differences between Fortran-77 and Fortran-8x (as presently envisioned by the standards committee) here? -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer or the administrator of any computer | at&t computer systems division | upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | -------------------------------- Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, go for it! allegra,ulysses,vax135}!ttrdc!levy
joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) (11/24/86)
In article <1348@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >In article <129@hcx1.UUCP>, notes@hcx1.UUCP writes: >> I am the alternate for Harris on the committee.... >committee) here? >-- > ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are A summary might be possible. A short summary is *NOT*. Maybe I shouldn't assume too much (I no longer have frequent discussions with Sperry's committee members). But the 8X extensions include an entire set of vector operations and such. Sperry's compiler has (roughly) 30 more intrinsic operations to support this. They include vector summations, products, dot products, etc, as well as various means of extracting parts of a matrix such as the diagonal, etc. Also, unless this has changed (which I hope it has!), variables are no longer static unless you do something to make them so (the compiler may have a switch). This could be Sperry-specific, but I got the impression this was not the case. In any case, some F77 code I tried to run didn't always execute with the 8X compiler until I made some minor mods. Ah well. Anyone want to provide a real summary? -- UUCP: ihnp4!rosevax!dayton!joe Joe Larson ATT : (612) 375-3537 Dayton Hudson Department Store Company (standard disclaimer...) 700 on the Mall Mpls, Mn. 55408