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From: ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Looking for source-level inliner
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Date: 9 May 91 16:29:27 GMT
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In the referenced article, I asked for suggestions regarding a Fortran
to Fortran function inliner, to assist in generating vectorizable code.
It seems I was wrong in thinking that the Convex Fortran compiler offers
no facilities for vectorizing code containing function calls; although
their 'Advanced Optimisation Course' has a lot to say about manually
inlining at source code level, it completely fails to mention that the
compiler has a facility for inlining at the intermediate code level. 
Thus it appears that Convex does provide the facilities I need - they
are just poorly documented! 

Thanks to Jim Davies (jrbd@craycos.com !!) for information on Convex's
'Application Compiler' which offers high levels of interprocedural
optimisation as an (expensive) add-on extra to the standard compilers.

Russ Evans
British Geological Survey, Edinburgh           
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