gfortran Coarray status – compiler, library & GSoC

[Toon Moene]

Tobias wrote:

> Current status on the compiler side (GCC 4.10 trunk): Full support of
> Fortran 2008 and of the TS18508 collectives co_sum/co_min/co_max except
> for:
> – No support yet for allocatable/pointer components of coarrays (i.e. no
> remote access to those via explicit component reference or via intrinsic
> assignment of the coarray, which should copy over allocatable components)
> – No locking, critical and atomics support
> – A few known bugs, e.g. with polymorphic coarrays in corner cases. I
> assume more corner cases will be found once there are more users.
>
> Current status for libcaf_single as shipping (and automatically build)
> with GCC 4.10: Besides the points above, the following is not yet working:
> – Coarrays with Vector subscripts.

Thanks for your and Alessandro's work. Alessandro presented this work 
and results
at the J3/WG5 meeting this week - impressive !

How does this work, configure-wise ?  I have OpenMPI installed on my 
system in the usual place; will a trunk configure find this automatically ?

Thanks in advance,

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