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- From: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Bob Marshall)
- Subject: Re: fortran/nohpo?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.063529.15242@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Reply-To: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- References: <8F8C298AB90D201115@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU>,<1993Jan24.172352.5424@dbased.nuo.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:35:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.172352.5424@dbased.nuo.dec.com>, lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) writes:
- >
- >In article <8F8C298AB90D201115@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU>, MRL@PFC.MIT.EDU
- >(Mark London) writes...
- >>Can anyone tell me what the /nohpo switch for fortran does, and it what cases
- >>do I need to add it, and is there a way to detect via a logical name if it
- >>applies the vax I'm using? Thanks.
- >
- >Now it occurred to me that there may be some people who have FORTRAN-HPO
- >but choose not to use it for certain applications (though I really don't
- >know of good reasons to do so)...
-
- One of the FAQs at my site is "what does it mean when I compile my
- program and I get the message 'COMMON block not naturally aligned'?".
- After attempting to explain what it means, if the querant does not
- appear to be satisfied (which is usually the case), my next response is
- "if it bothers you, just use the /NOHPO switch". In many cases they are
- compiling on a uniprocessor system in our system which has no vector
- processor, anyway.
-
- So, there's at least one situation where the /NOHPO switch makes sense,
- even when the FORTRAN-HPO compiler is available.
-
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