Buffered/unbuffered I/O issues

Harald Anlauf anlauf@gmx.de
Wed Oct 17 09:05:00 GMT 2007


Jerry,

> What do you think about providing GFORTRAN_UNBUFFERED_STDIO rather than
> the more 
> general _n?
> 
> Herald, what are your needs?

for programs running in the background or batch I find it
very convenient to have unbuffered stdout (and stderr).
It would be quite inconvenient to clutter up a large program
with flush statements just for informational output.
Something like GFORTRAN_UNBUFFERED_STDIO would be perfect.

Thanks,
-ha

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