HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Libraries and Programming
HP Fortran
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HP Fortran
HP Fortran is a modern, powerful mathematical and scientific language that supports
array-handling, data abstraction, and data hiding. HP Fortran is now available on both
PA-RISC and Itanium platforms, and includes the following features:
• Full Fortran 95 compiler, based on International ANSI/ISO standards
•Full OpenMP v2.0
• Object-oriented Fortran feature optimizations
• Math intrinsic inlining support
• Standard Fortran library
• HP WDB debugger support
•HP Caliper
HP Fortran products are increasingly the language of choice for software engineers
writing scientific applications and who demand superior run-time performance, code
portability, and programmer productivity.
Summary of Change
HP Fortran v2.7 for HP-UX 11i v2 contains performance-tuning enhancements.
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no performance issues.
Documentation
For further information, see the following:
•The f90 (1) manpage, which provides a summary reference to the compile-line
options
• The white paper, “Libm Library and Floating-Point Arithmetic for HP-UX on
Itanium,” located at
http://cllweb.cup.hp.com/mathlibs/external/document/fp_whitepaper.pdf
•The HP Fortran Programmer's Reference and HP Fortran Programmer's Guide, both
located at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/dev/index.html#Fortran
• The most current version of the release note, located at
/opt/fortran90/newconfig/RelNotes/Fortran90.2.7.htm|pdf|ps|txt