[Developers] Re: [CactusMaint] IDAxiBrillBH no longer compiles on Absoft F90

[Tom Goodale]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:48, Tom Goodale wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:52, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
>>>> I was indeed the one who introduced this.  I had _thought_ that
>>>> it was ok to omit the field width, and the Intel fortran compiler
>>>> seemed to grok that ok.  But a quick check in Metcalf & Reid's
>>>> Fortran 90 book doesn't mention that feature, so I just committed
>>>> a fix to say "I8" in all such places.  Hopefully that should make
>>>> the code strictly-legal and ok on all compilers...
>>>
>>> The code is okay, the compilers are not.
>>
>> Are you sure ? Looking at the F90 standard, it seems the number is
>> necessary.
>
> Let me back off a bit...  maybe Fortran 95?

Oops, I was looking at F95;  but it says that any standards conforming F90 
code will compile with F95, so F95 is certainly not stricter in this 
regard than F90.

Tom