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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x ANSI standard
Message-ID: <233@dayton.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 10:22:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 10:22:27 1986
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In article <1348@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <129@hcx1.UUCP>, notes@hcx1.UUCP writes:
>>   I am the alternate for Harris on the committee....
>committee) here?
>-- 
> -------------------------------    Disclaimer:  The views contained herein are


A summary might be possible.  A short summary is *NOT*.  Maybe I shouldn't
assume too much (I no longer have frequent discussions with Sperry's
committee members).  But the 8X extensions include an entire set of
vector operations and such.  Sperry's compiler has (roughly) 30 more
intrinsic operations to support this.  They include vector summations,
products, dot products, etc, as well as various means of extracting
parts of a matrix such as the diagonal, etc.  Also, unless this has
changed (which I hope it has!), variables are no longer static unless
you do something to make them so (the compiler may have a switch).  This
could be Sperry-specific, but I got the impression this was not the case.

In any case, some F77 code I tried to run didn't always execute with
the 8X compiler until I made some minor mods.

Ah well.  Anyone want to provide a real summary?

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