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From: thomasse@seti.inria.fr (thomasset francois)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: PCF FORTRAN (was : FORTRAN 90 Standard: Latest edition?)
Keywords: FORTRAN 90 standard document,PCF,parallel FORTRAN
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Date: 11 Feb 91 18:37:41 GMT
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Concerning standards I am interested in knowing the current state with
the so called PCF proposal; for those who don't know this is (was?) a
proposition of a standard for parallel extensions to FORTRAN77: DOALLs,
parallel sections, critical sections,... (which are NOT in FORTRAN90)
I belive it was originated by a meeting of machine vendors (IBM, CRAY,
ALLIANT, others?) who wanted to bring some coherence into the forest of
parallel dialects of FORTRAN. Now this proposal lies, as far as I know,
in the hands of an ANSI X3H5 commitee; the last version I have of the
proposal dates from August 1990. Can anybody give any news about the
activities of this commitee? And by the way does anyone know about existing
compilers (or projects of compilers) for this standard?