(j3.2006) Preparing for the Tokyo meeting

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 05:40, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> So serial Fortran will not go away any time soon, and some people will
> positively want coarray-free compilers (or a fixable mode).
The intention is, and always has been, that all compilers, when and if they 
implement parallelism (i.e., num_images>1), should include a special switch 
that says: compile assuming serial execution. I think this switch should work 
even for programs that actually use co-arrays (in a manner where the number 
of images can be 1), since it enables co-arrays to simply be compiled to 
nothingness.
Best,
Aleks