On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 03:58 pm, Yin Zhu wrote:
> IBM is pleased to announce new releases of XL Fortran.
>
> IBM XL Fortran for AIX V8.1.1 provides full functionality of XL Fortran
> V7.1 and V8.1.0. In addition, it adds partial support for the
> draft Fortran 2000 standard such as stream-access I/O, VALUE attribute,
> PROTECTED attribute, allocatable components, IEEE Floating Point
> Exception Handling and pointer with INTENT attribute. Additional
> performance enhancements for IBM POWER4 architecture are also provided.
>
> IBM XL Fortran V8.1 for Linux on pSeries was made available Feb, 2003.
> It is based on the mature compiler technology of IBM XL Fortran for AIX
> and is fully compliant with FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90 and Fortran 95
> standards.
> It also supports both IBM and industry extensions. In addition,
> this compiler provides full support for the OpenMP Fortran API V2.0.
> With
> 32-bit and 64-bit optimization supported, the compiler generates highly
> optimized code for PowerPC processors, including POWER4 architecture.
Does this compiler also support the new 970 chip just released by Apple
under the name G5?
If not, does IBM have any plans to port their compilers to Mac OS X in
light of recent developments?
Regards,
Drew
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Dr. Drew McCormack (Kmr. R153)
Afd. Theoretische Chemie
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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