NAG Fortran Compiler Release 5.2

1 Name

nagfor — NAG Fortran Compiler Release 5.2

2 Usage

nagfor [option]... file...

3 Description

nagfor is the NAG Fortran Compiler. It translates programs written in Fortran 77, Fortran 90 or Fortran 95 into executable programs, relocatable binary modules, assembler source files or C source files.

The suffix (extension) of a filename determines the action that the compiler performs upon it. Files ending in ‘.f90’ or ‘.f95’ are taken to be Fortran 90/95 free form source files, files ending in ‘.f’, ‘.for’ or ‘.ftn’ are taken to be Fortran 90/95 fixed form (or Fortran 77) source files. Files ending in ‘.ff90’ or ‘.ff95’ are taken to be free source form files requiring preprocessing by fpp, files ending in ‘.ff’ are taken to be fixed source form files requiring preprocessing by fpp. On Unix, files ending in ‘.F90’ or ‘.F95’ are taken to be free source form files requiring preprocessing by fpp, files ending in ‘.F’ are taken to be fixed source form files requiring preprocessing by fpp. (Note that on Mac OS X and Windows, the file system is not case-sensitive so uppercase and lowercase letters are equivalent in filenames including in the suffixes.)

If a filename without a suffix is provided nagfor will look for a file with the suffix ‘.f95’, and if that does not exist, the suffix ‘.f90’.

Modules and include files are expected to exist in the current working directory or in a directory named by the -I option.

Options not recognised by nagfor are passed to the link phase (cc, gcc, c89 or xlc).

4 Options

-132

Increase the length of each fixed source form input line from 72 characters to 132 characters. This has no effect on free source form input.

-abi=abi

(AMD64 only) Specify the ABI to compile for, either 32 (the 32-bit ABI), 64t (the AMD 64-bit ABI) or 64 (the AMD 64-bit ABI with object sizes limited to 2 GB). Programs compiled with -abi=64t or -abi=64 will only run on 64-bit kernels. Programs compiled with -abi=32 will run on any x86 Linux system. The default is -abi=64t. The -abi=64 option should only be used to generate code compatible with NAGWare Release 5.1(346) or earlier, it will be withdrawn at a future release.

-abi=abi

(64-bit Intel Mac only) Specify the ABI to compile for, either 32 (the 32-bit ABI) or 64 (the 64-bit ABI). The default is -abi=64.

-align=alignment

(Mac OS X only) Specify the alignment of variables and components, which must be one of:

natural	(natural alignment for best performance; this can alter the interpretation of COMMON block or SEQUENCE type layout in a non-standard-conforming manner), or
standard	(use standard-conforming alignment; this is the default).

The whole program should be compiled with the same alignment option.

-Bbinding

Specify static or dynamic binding. This only has effect if specified during the link phase. The default is dynamic binding. These options are positional and can be used to selectively bind some libraries statically and some dynamically.

-c

Compile only (produce .o file for each source file), do not link the .o files to produce an executable file.

-C

Compile with all but the most expensive runtime checks; this omits the -C=dangling and -C=undefined options.

-C=check

Compile checking code according to the value of check, which must be one of:

all	(perform all checks except for -C=undefined),
array	(check array bounds),
bits	(check bit intrinsic arguments),
calls	(check procedure references),
dangling	(check for dangling pointers),
do	(check DO loops for zero step values),
none	(do no checking: this is the default),
present	(check OPTIONAL references),
pointer	(check POINTER references),
recursion	(check for invalid recursion) or
undefined	(check for undefined variables).

The -C=recursion option is incompatible with the -thread_safe option and will be ignored if the latter is used.

The -C=undefined option is subject to a number of limitations and is not binary-compatible with code compiled without that option; see the Undefined Variable Detection section for further details.

-colour

Colour the message output from the compiler using ANSI escape sequences and the default foreground colouring scheme which is: red for error messages (including fatal errors), blue for warning messages and green for information messages.

-colour=scheme

Colour the message output from the compiler according to the specified scheme. This is a comma-separated list of colour specifications, each consisting of a message category name (“error”, “warn” or “info”) followed by a colon and the foreground colour name, optionally following by a plus sign and the background colour name. The colouring for unspecified categories will be the default.

Colours are: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white.

E.g. —colour=error:red+blue,warn:cyan,info:magenta+yellow
would be a rather garish colour scheme.

-Dname

Defines name to fpp as a preprocessor variable. This only affects files that are being preprocessed by fpp.

-dcfuns

Enable recognition of non-standard double precision complex intrinsic functions. These act as specific versions of the standard generic intrinsics as follows:

Non-standard	Equivalent Standard Fortran Generic Intrinsic Function
CDABS(A)	ABS(A)
DCMPLX(X,Y)	CMPLX(X,Y,KIND=KIND(0d0))
DCONJG(Z)	CONJG(Z)
DIMAG(Z)	AIMAG(Z)
DREAL(Z)	REAL(Z) or DBLE(Z)

-double

Double the size of default INTEGER, LOGICAL, REAL and COMPLEX. Entities specified with explicit kind numbers or byte lengths are unaffected. If quadruple precision REAL is available, the size of DOUBLE PRECISION is also doubled.

-dryrun

Show but do not execute commands constructed by the compiler driver.

-dusty

Allows the compilation and execution of “legacy” software by downgrading the category of common errors found in such software from “Error” to “Warning” (which may then be suppressed entirely with the -w option). This option disables -C=calls, and also enables Hollerith i/o (see the -hollerith_io option).

-english

Produce compiler messages in English (default).

-extend_c_interop

Enable the non-standard C interoperability extension of allowing a BIND(C) procedure to be ELEMENTAL.

-F

Preprocess only, do not compile. Each file that is preprocessed will produce an output file of the same name with the suffix replaced by .f, .f90 or .f95 according to the suffix of the input file.

-f2003

Specify that the base language is Fortran 2003. (The default in this release is Fortran 95.) With this option, Fortran 2003 features will not be reported as extensions.

-f77

Make external linkages compatible with the native f77 compiler where possible. On AIX, HP-UX and Windows, this suppresses the trailing underscore for those external names that do not clash with C language keywords or library functions. On Windows it also causes use of the “STDCALL” calling convention that is commonly used for most DLLs.

-f90_sign

Use the Fortran 77/90 version of the SIGN intrinsic instead of the Fortran 95 one (they differ in the treatment of negative zero).

-f95

Specify that the base language is Fortran 95. (This is the default in this release.) This only affects extension message generation (Fortran 2003 features will be reported as extensions).

-fixed

Interpret all Fortran source files according to fixed-form rules.

-float-store

(Gnu C based systems only) Do not store floating-point variables in registers on machines with floating-point registers wider than 64 bits. This can avoid problems with excess precision.

-fpp

Preprocess the source files using fpp even if the suffix would normally indicate an ordinary Fortran file.

-framework f

(Mac OS X only) Use framework f during linking.

-free

Interpret all Fortran source files according to free-form rules.

-g

Produce information for interactive debugging by the host system debugger.

-g90

Produce debugging information for dbx90, a Fortran 90 aware front-end to the host system debugger. This produces a debug information (.g90) file for each Fortran source file. This option must be specified for both compilation and linking.

-gc

Enables automatic garbage collection of the executable program. This option must be specified for both compilation and linking, and is incompatible with -thread_safe and -mtrace. For more details see the Automatic Garbage Collection section.

-gline

Compile code to produce a traceback when a runtime error message is generated. Only routines compiled with this option will appear in such a traceback. This option increases both executable file size and execution time. For example:

   Runtime Error: Invalid input for real editing
   Program terminated by I/O error on unit 5 (Input_Unit,Formatted,Sequential)
   main.f90, line 28: Error occurred in READ_DATA
   main.f90, line 57: Called by READ_COORDS
   main.f90, line 40: Called by INITIAL
   main.f90, line 13: Called by $main$

-help

Display a one-line summary of each option.

-hollerith_io

Enable Fortran-66 compatible input/output of character data stored in numeric variables using the A edit descriptor. This was superseded by the CHARACTER datatype in Fortran 77.

-hpf

Accept the extensions to Fortran specified by the High Performance Fortran Forum in HPF 1.0. These consist of the EXTRINSIC keyword and a large number of compiler directives. The compiler directives are checked for correctness but have no effect on compilation.

-I pathname

Add pathname to the list of directories which are to be searched for module information (.mod) files and INCLUDE files. The current working directory is always searched first, then any directories named in -I options, then the compiler's library directory (see the -Qpath option).

-ieee=mode

Set the mode of IEEE arithmetic operation according to mode, which must be one of full, nonstd or stop.

full

enables all IEEE arithmetic facilities including non-stop arithmetic.

nonstd

Disables non-stop arithmetic, terminating execution on floating overflow, division by zero or invalid operand. If the hardware supports it, this also disables IEEE gradual underflow, producing zero instead of a denormalised number; this can improve performance on some systems.

stop

enables all IEEE arithmetic facilities except for non-stop arithmetic; execution will be terminated on floating overflow, division by zero or invalid operand.

The -ieee option must be specified when compiling the main program unit, and its effect is global. The default mode is -ieee=stop. For more details see the IEEE 754 Arithmetic Support section.

-info

Request output of information messages. The default is to suppress these messages.

-kind=option

Specify the kind numbering system to be used; option must be one of byte or sequential.

For -kind=byte, the kind numbers for INTEGER, REAL and LOGICAL will match the number of bytes of storage (e.g., default REAL is 4 and DOUBLE PRECISION is 8). Note that COMPLEX kind numbers are the same as its REAL components, and thus half of the total byte length in the entity.

For -kind=sequential (the default), the kind numbers for all datatypes are numbered sequentially from 1, increasing with precision (e.g., default REAL is 1 and DOUBLE PRECISION is 2).

This option does not affect the interpretation of byte-length specifiers (an extension to Fortran 77).

-lx

Link with library libx.a. The linker will search for this library in the directories specified by -Ldir options followed by the normal system directories (see the ld(1) command).

-Ldir

Add dir to the list of directories for library files (see the ld(1) command).

-M

Produce module information files (.mod files) only.

-maxcontin=N

Increase the limit on the number of continuation lines from 255 to N. This option will not decrease the limit below the standard number.

-mdir dir

Write any module information (.mod) files to directory dir instead of the current working directory.

-mismatch

Downgrade consistency checking of procedure argument lists so that mismatches produce warning messages instead of error messages. This only affects calls to a routine which is not in the current file; calls to a routine in the file being compiled must still be correct. This option disables -C=calls.

-mismatch_all

Further downgrade consistency checking of procedure argument lists so that calls to routines in the same file which are incorrect will produce warnings instead of error messages. This option disables -C=calls.

-mtrace

Trace memory allocation and deallocation. This option is a synonym for -mtrace=on.

-mtrace=trace_opt_list

Trace memory allocation and deallocation according to the value of trace_opt_list, which must be a comma separated list of one or more of:

address	(display addresses),
all	(all options except for off),
line	(display file/line info if known),
off	(disable tracing output),
on	(enable tracing output),
paranoia	(protect memory allocator data structures against the user program),
size	(display size in bytes) or
verbose	(all options except for off and paranoia).

This option should be specified during both compilation and linking, and is incompatible with the -gc option. For more details see the Memory Tracing section.

-nan

Initialise REAL and COMPLEX variables to IEEE Signalling NaN, causing a runtime crash if the values are used before being set. This affects local variables, module variables, and INTENT(OUT) dummy arguments only; it does not affect variables in COMMON or EQUIVALENCE.

-nihongo

Produce compiler messages in Japanese (using Shift-JIS encoding).

-nocheck_modtime

Do not check for .mod files being out of date.

-nomod

Suppress module information (.mod) file production.

-noqueue

If no licence for the compiler is immediately available, exit with an error instead of queueing for it.

-o output

Name the output file output instead of the default. If an executable is being produced the default is a.out; otherwise it is file.o with the -c option, file.c with the -S option, and file.f, file.f90 or file.f95 with the -F option, where file is the base part of the source file (i.e. with the suffix removed).

-O

Normal optimisation, equivalent to -O2.

-ON

Set the optimisation level to N. The optimisation levels are:

-O0

No optimisation. This is the default, and is recommended when debugging.

-O1

Minimal quick optimisation.

-O2

Normal optimisation.

-O3

Further optimisation.

-O4

Maximal optimisation.

-Oassumed

This is a synonym for -Oassumed=contig.

-Oassumed=shape

Optimises assumed-shape array dummy arguments according to the value of shape, which must be one of

always_contig

Optimised for contiguous actual arguments. If the actual argument is not contiguous a runtime error will occur (the compiler is not standard-conforming under this option).

contig

Optimised for contiguous actual arguments; if the actual argument is not contiguous (i.e. it is an array section) a contiguous local copy is made. This may speed up array section accessing if a sufficiently large number of array element or array operations is performed (i.e. if the cost of making the local copy is less than the overhead of discontiguous array accesses), but usually makes such accesses slower. Note that this option does not affect dummy arguments with the TARGET attribute; these are always accessed via the dope vector.

section

Optimised for low-moderate accesses to array section (discontiguous) actual arguments. This is the default.

Note that CHARACTER arrays are not affected by these options.

-Oblock=N

Specify the dimension of the blocks used for evaluating the MATMUL intrinsic. The default value (only for -O1 and above) is system and datatype dependent.

-Onopropagate

Disable the optimisation of constant propagation. This is the default for -O1 and lower.

-Opropagate

Enable the optimisation of constant propagation. This is the default for -O2 and higher.

-Orounding

Specify that the program does not alter the default rounding mode. This enables the use of faster code for the ANINT intrinsic.

-Ounroll=N

Specify the depth to which simple loops and array operations should be unrolled. The default is no unrolling (i.e. a depth of 1) for -O0 and -O1, and a depth of 2 for -O and higher optimisation levels. It can be advantageous to disable the Fortran compiler's loop unrolling if the C compiler normally does a very good job itself — this can be accomplished with -Ounroll=1.

-Ounsafe

Perform possibly unsafe optimisations that may depend on the numerical stability of the program.

-pg

Compile code to generate profiling information which is written at run-time to an implementation-dependent file (usually gmon.out or mon.out). An execution profile may then be generated using gprof. This option must be specified for compilation and linking and may be unavailable on some implementations.

-pic

Produce position-independent code (small model), for use in a shared library. If the shared library is too big for the small model, use -PIC.

-PIC

Produce position-independent code (large model), for use in a shared library.

-Qpath pathname

Change the compiler library pathname from its default location to pathname. (The default location on Unix is usually ‘/usr/local/lib/NAG_Fortran’ or ‘/opt/NAG_Fortran/lib’, and on Windows is usually ‘C:\Program Files\NAG\EFBuilderPro\NAG_Fortran\lib’.)

-r8

Double the size of default REAL and COMPLEX, and on machines for which quadruple-precision floating-point arithmetic is available, double the size of DOUBLE PRECISION (and the non-standard DOUBLE COMPLEX). REAL or COMPLEX specified with explicit KIND numbers or byte lengths are unaffected — but since the KIND intrinsic returns the correct values, COMPLEX(KIND(0d0)) on a machine with quad-precision floating-point will correctly select quad-precision COMPLEX.

This has no effect on INTEGER sizes, and so the compiler is not standard-conforming in this mode.

Note: This option has been superseded by the -double option which doubles the size of all numeric data types.

-s

Strip symbol table information from the executable file. This option is only effective if specified during the link phase.

-S

Produce assembler (actually C source code). The resulting .c file should be compiled with the NAG Fortran compiler, not with the C compiler directly.

-save

This is equivalent to inserting the SAVE statement in all subprograms which are not declared RECURSIVE, thus causing all non-automatic local variables in such subprograms to be statically allocated.

-strict95

Produce obsolescence warning messages for use of ‘CHARACTER*’ syntax. This message is not produced by default since most programs contain this syntax.

-target=machine

Specify the machine for which code should be generated and optimised.

• For Linux (x86-32) and Windows, machine may be one of

  i486, i586, i686, pentium2, pentium3, pentium4	the specified Intel processor,
  k6, k6-2, k6-3, k6-4, athlon, athlon-4, athlon-xp, athlon-mp	the specified AMD processor,
  pentium	(equivalent to i586) or
  pentiumpro	(equivalent to i686).

  The default is to compile for i686.

• For Sun/SPARC, machine may be one of

  V7

  SPARCstation 1 et al,

  V8

  SPARCstation 2 et al,

  super

  SuperSPARC,

  ultra

  UltraSPARC or

  native

  the current machine.

  The default is to compile for SPARC V7.

  Note that programs compiled for later versions of the architecture may not run, or may run much more slowly, on an earlier machine. The -target=native option is not available with gcc.

• For HP9000/700, machine may be one of

  2.0

  the specified revision of the PA-RISC architecture (default) or

  native

  the current machine.

-tempdir directory

Set the directory used for the compiler's temporary files to directory. The default is to use the directory named by the TMPDIR environment variable, or if that is not set, /tmp.

-thread_safe

Compile code for safe execution in a multi-threaded environment. This must be specified when compiling and also during the link phase. It is incompatible with -gc.

-time

Report execution times for the various compilation phases.

-u

Specify that IMPLICIT NONE is in effect by default, unless overridden by explicit IMPLICIT statements.

-unsharedrts

Bind with the unshared (static) version of the Fortran runtime system; this allows a dynamically linked executable to be run on systems where the NAG Fortran Compiler is not installed. This option is only effective if specified during the link phase.

-v

Verbose. Print the name of each file as it is compiled.

-V

Print version information about the compiler.

-w

Suppress all warning messages. This option is a synonym for -w=all.

-w=class

Suppress the warning messages specified by class, which must be one of all, alloctr, obs, ques, uda, uei, uep, uip, ulv, unused, usf, usy, x77 or x95.

-w=all

suppresses all warning messages.

-w=alloctr

suppresses warning messages about the use of allocatable components, dummy arguments and functions.

-w=obs

suppresses warning messages about the use of obsolescent features.

-w=ques

suppresses warning messages about questionable usage.

-w=uda

suppresses warning messages about unused dummy arguments.

-w=uei

suppresses warning messages about unused explicit imports.

-w=uep

suppresses warning messages about unused external procedures.

-w=uip

suppresses warning messages about unused intrinsic procedures.

-w=ulv

suppresses warning messages about unused local variables.

-w=unused

suppresses warning messages about unused entities. It is equivalent to ‘-w=uda -w=uei -w=uep -w=uip -w=ulv -w=usf -w=usy’.

-w=usf

suppresses warning messages about unused statement functions.

-w=usy

suppresses warning messages about unused symbols.

-w=x77

suppresses extension warnings for common extensions to Fortran 77. These are TAB format, byte-length specifiers and Hollerith constants.

-w=x95

suppresses extension warnings for extensions to Fortran 95.

-Woptions

The -W option can be used to specify the path to use for a compilation component or to pass an option directly to such a component. The possible combinations are:

-W0=path

Specify the path used for the Fortran Compiler front-end. Note that this does not affect the library directory; the -Qpath option should be used to specify that.

-Wc=path

Specify the path to use for invoking the C compiler; this is used both for the final stage of compilation and for linking.

-Wc,option

Pass option directly to the host C compiler when compiling (producing the .o file). Multiple options may be specified in a single -Wc, option by separating them with commas.

-Wl=path

Specify the path to use for invoking the linker (producing the executable).

-Wl,option

Pass option directly to the host C compiler when linking (producing the executable). Multiple options may be specified in a single -Wl, option by separating them with commas. A comma may be included in an option by repeating it, e.g. -Wl,-filelist=file1,,file2,,file3 becomes the linker option -filelist=file1,file2,file3.

-Wp=path

Specify the path to use for invoking the fpp preprocessor.

-Wp,option

Pass option directly to fpp when preprocessing.

-wmismatch=proc-name-list

Specify a list of external procedures for which to suppress argument data type and arrayness consistency checking. The procedure names should be separated by commas, e.g. -wmismatch=p_one,p2. Unlike the -mismatch option, this only affects data type and arrayness checking, and no warning messages are produced.

-xlicinfo

Report on the availability of licences for the compiler instead of compiling anything.

-xs

(Sun/SPARC option only) Store the symbol tables in the executable (otherwise debugging is only possible if the object files are kept).

5 Files

6 Compilation Messages

The messages produced by the NAG Fortran Compiler itself during compilation are intended to be self-explanatory. The linker, or more rarely the host C compiler, may produce occasional messages.

Messages produced by the compiler are classified by severity level; these levels are:

7 Compiler Limits

8 Input/Output Information

The default directory used for files opened with STATUS='SCRATCH' is ‘/tmp’ on Unix and the Windows temporary directory on Windows. This default may be overridden with the TMPDIR environment variable.

9 Automatic File Preconnection

All logical unit numbers are automatically preconnected to specific files. These files need not exist and will only be opened or created if they are accessed with READ or WRITE without an explicit OPEN. By default the specific filename for unit n is fort.n; however if the environment variable FORTnn exists its value is used as the filename. Note that there are two digits in this variable name, e.g. the variable controlling unit 1 is FORT01 whereas the default filename is ‘fort.1’ (unless the prefix has been changed, see the description of module F90_PRECONN_IO.

A file preconnected in this manner is opened with ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL'. If the initial READ or WRITE is an unformatted i/o statement, it is opened with FORM='UNFORMATTED' otherwise it is opened with FORM='FORMATTED'. By default a formatted connection is opened with BLANK='NULL' and POSITION='REWIND' (see module F90_PRECONN_IO).

Automatic preconnection applies only to the initial use of a logical unit; once CLOSEd the unit will not be reconnected automatically but must be explicitly OPENed.

Note that this facility means that it is possible for a READ or WRITE statement with an IOSTAT= clause to receive an i/o error code associated with the implicit OPEN.

10 IEEE 754 Arithmetic Support

If no floating-point option is specified, any floating divide-by-zero, overflow or invalid operand exception will cause the execution of the program to be terminated (with an informative message and usually a core dump). Occurrence of floating underflow may be reported on normal termination of the program. On hardware supporting IEEE 754 standard arithmetic gradual underflow with denormalised numbers will be enabled. Note that this mode of operation is the only one available on hardware which does not support IEEE 754.

If the -ieee=full option is specified, non-stop arithmetic is enabled; thus REAL variables may take on the values +Infinity, −Infinity and NaN (Not-a-Number). If any of the floating exceptions listed above are detected by the hardware during execution, this fact will be reported on normal termination. The -ieee=full option must be specified when compiling the main program and has global effect; that is, it affects the entire executable program.

If the -ieee=nonstd option is specified, floating-point exceptions are handled in the default manner (i.e. execution is terminated). However, gradual underflow is not enabled, so results which would have produced a denormalised number produce zero instead. This option can only be used on hardware for which this mode of operation is faster. Like -ieee=full, the -ieee=nonstd option must be specified when compiling the main program and has global effect.

11 Random Number Algorithm

The random number generator supplied as the intrinsic subroutine RANDOM_NUMBER is the “Mersenne Twister”.

12 Automatic Garbage Collection

The -gc option enables use of the runtime garbage collector. It is necessary to use this option during the link phase for it to have effect; specifying it additionally during the compilation phase can result in improved performance.

The supplied Technical Information note (TECHINFO) lists whether garbage collection is available for your system. If it is available, there will be a file ‘gc.o’ in the compiler's library directory.

The collector used is based on version 5.3 of the publicly available general purpose garbage collecting storage allocator of Hans-J Boehm, Alan J Demers and Xerox Corporation, described in “Garbage Collection in an Uncooperative Environment” (H Boehm and M Weiser, Software Practice and Experience, September 1988, pp 807-820).

The copyright notice attached to their latest version is as follows:

Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Copyright 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics.  All rights reserved.
Copyright 1999 by Hewlett-Packard Company.  All rights reserved.


THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
for any purpose,  provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
modified is included with the above copyright notice.

Note that the “NO WARRANTY” disclaimer refers to the original copyright holders Boehm, Demers, Xerox Corporation, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard Company. The modified collector distributed in binary form with the NAG Fortran Compiler is subject to the same warranty and conditions as the rest of the NAG Fortran compilation system.

The module F90_GC is provided; it contains functions and variables that can control the behaviour of the garbage collector.

13 Memory Tracing

Tracing of memory allocation and deallocation is provided by the -mtrace option. Control is provided over whether the address, size, and line number of each allocation is displayed, or the tracing output can be suppressed entirely. A “paranoia” mode is provided where the memory allocator protects its data structures against inadvertent modification by the user program.

Runtime environment variables may be used to override the tracing options a program was built with, and to specify where to write the tracing output. These are only operative if the program was built with some tracing option; -mtrace=off will build a program with the tracing-capable memory allocator.

If -mtrace=off is not specified, use of any -mtrace option will implicitly do a -mtrace=on.

Basic tracing produces a message to the memory tracing file (normally standard error) for each allocation and deallocation, including those for automatic variables, i/o buffers and compiler-generated temporaries. Each allocation is numbered sequentially; the first three items are the i/o buffers for units 0, 5 and 6 (standard error, standard input and standard output).

All -mtrace= suboptions may be overridden at run time by the NAGFORTRAN_MTRACE_OPTIONS environment variable, which should be set to the required trace_opt_list (e.g. ‘on,size’). The memory tracing file may be specified at run time by the NAGFORTRAN_MTRACE_FILE environment variable.

The -mtrace option must be specified when linking, and is incompatible with -gc. Additionally, line number information is only available for those files compiled with -mtrace=line.

The nagfmcheck program can be used to check the output from the -mtrace option. It is designed to be used as a filter. Any lines that do not look like memory tracing output are ignored. It reports to standard output any errors it detects such as deallocating something twice, deallocating something that was never allocated, or deallocating something with a size different from that with which it was allocated. It also reports any apparent memory leaks, though this is less useful if the program terminated prematurely.

14 Undefined Variable Detection

Use of undefined variables can be detected with the -C=undefined option. Program units compiled with this option are incompatible with program units compiled without this option (i.e. the whole program must be compiled the same way). For this reason, -C=undefined is not part of -C or -C=all.

Currently, there are a number of other limitations on the use of -C=undefined.

1. It is incompatible with ALLOCATABLE functions.
2. It is incompatible with pointers in an initialised COMMON.
3. The only intrinsic modules available with it are F90_KIND, F90_STAT and F90_IOSTAT.
4. Internal READ from a CHARACTER array requires the entire specified array subobject to be “defined”, even those elements corresponding to records not actually read.
5. Internal WRITE to a CHARACTER array is considered to define the entire specified array subobject, even those elements corresponding to records not actually written.
6. Certain intrinsic functions require the entirety of their arguments to be defined, even if some portions are not actually required for the value of the function. For example, the PAD argument to RESHAPE when no padding is actually required, and elements of the ARRAY argument to PACK that correspond to false elements of the MASK argument.

15 Debugging

On Windows debugging is built-in to the Fortran Builder. For operating systems other than Windows a Modern Fortran-aware debugger might be available as dbx90; see TECHINFO.txt for details.

In general, host system debuggers, such as dbx or gdb, may be used successfully on Fortran code as the names of the original source files, plus line numbers, are passed through to the intermediate C files. In using such debuggers it should be noted that most local variables have an underscore appended to their names. It may be useful to look at the intermediate C code when debugging; this is produced by the -S option.

16 Modules

To use a module it must be pre-compiled, or must be defined in the file prior to its use. When separately compiling a module the -c option should be specified.

Compiling a module creates a ‘.mod’ file and a ‘.o’ file. The ‘.mod’ file is used by the compiler at compile time to provide information about module contents, the ‘.o’ file (if generated) contains the code of any module procedures and must be specified when creating an executable file.

Note that the name of the ‘.mod’ file will be the name of the module, the ‘.o’ file will be named after the original source file.

When a precompiled module is USEd the NAG Fortran Compiler attempts to find its source file and, if that is successful, checks the modification times producing a warning message if the ‘.mod’ file is out of date.

17 Data Types

The table below lists the data types provided by the NAG Fortran Compiler together with their kind numbers. There are two possibilities for the KIND numbers: the default mode of operation (which may be specified explicitly by the -kind=sequential option) and the “byte” numbering scheme (specified by the -kind=byte option).

Note that on all machines except Sun Solaris with the SunPro C compiler, quadruple precision is actually “double double” precision; this provides nearly twice the precision of Double precision but with a reduced exponent range.

The F90_KIND module contains named parameters useful for specifying which kind you want regardless of whether the numbering system is “sequential” or “byte”.

18 Runtime Environment Variables

The following variables control the runtime environment for programs compiled with the NAG Fortran Compiler.

NAGFORTRAN_MTRACE_FILE

Programs compiled using any -mtrace= option will write the memory trace to this file. The default is standard error.

NAGFORTRAN_MTRACE_OPTIONS

Changes the memory tracing options for programs compiled using any -mtrace= option.

NAGFORTRAN_RUNTIME_ERROR_FILE

Runtime error messages will be written to this file. The default is standard error.

NAGFORTRAN_RUNTIME_LANGUAGE

Controls the language used for runtime error messages. This may be ‘English’ or ‘Japanese’ (not case-sensitive); the default is English.

TMPDIR

Controls the directory used for scratch files (the default is system-dependent).

Additional intrinsic modules built into the NAG Fortran Compiler are described in the “nag_modules” document.

19 See Also

20 Bugs

Please report any bugs found to ‘support@nag.co.uk’ or ‘support@nag.com’, along with any suggestions for improvements.

21 Author

Malcolm Cohen, Nihon Numerical Algorithms Group KK, Tokyo, Japan.