[mpich-discuss] mpifort wrapper compiler?

[Pavan Balaji]

I’m a Fortran nobody, so I can’t really say one way or another.  But from my discussion with BillG and some vendors (e.g., Fujitsu), there still seem to be compilers that are special-optimized for F77.  Now, I don’t know why that can’t be done absed on the suffix.  If you can convince Bill that this is indeed no problem, I’m happy to change it, or even deprecate Fortran.  :-)

  — Pavan

On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> It’s very unlikely we’ll drop F77 separation.  
> 
> Just curious -- why?  Fortran compiler vendors themselves are consolidating down to single executable names: ifort, pgifort, gfortran, ... etc.
> 
> This was one of the main motivations for OMPI: we're reflecting what the underlying compiler is, not adding our own distinctions on top of them.  If the underlying compiler distinguishes between free/fixed form via the .suffix, then we (MPI implementations) shouldn't change that.
> 
> I guess my question is: why would you use "mpif77" instead of "mpifort"?  Or, put differently, what do you need to compile with mpif77 that would not compile properly with mpifort?
> 
>> F90 and F08 separation might not be a big issue, but we’ll likely just maintain them as separate symbolic links to mpifort.  For now, we could add a symbolic link from mpifort to mpif90.
>> 
>> FWIW, we already use FC and FCFLAGS for F90+.  But we still use F77 for F77 compilers.
> 
> Keep in mind that there have not been any "Fortran 77" compilers for over 30 years.
> 
> The distinction is artificial and arbitrary...
> 
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