Degenerate Conic

Fortran Compiler News

The GNU Project just announced the availability of GCC 5.1. There are various new GFortran features, including:

• Availability of the intrinsic IEEE modules (ieee_features, ieee_exceptions and ieee_arithmetic) from Fortran 2003.
• Support for implicit none (external, type) from Fortran 2015.

GFortran is still not completely Fortran 2003 compatible, however.

In Intel news, Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 is now in beta (which includes v16 of the Intel Fortran Compiler). The major new features are:

• Submodules from Fortran 2008!
• impure elemental from Fortran 2008.
• "Further Interoperability with C" features from TS29113 (Fortran 2015 draft).

Intel Fortran Compiler v15 Released

Intel has released version 15 of their Fortran compiler (the product formerly known as Intel Visual Fortran, and now part of the confusingly-named "Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition", is an update to the v14 release which was called "Intel Composer XE 2013 SP1"). The big news is that it now includes full support for the Fortran 2003 standard. This release also adds support for the BLOCK construct and EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE intrinsic subroutine from Fortran 2008.

See also

1. Compiler support for the Fortran 2003 Standard