(j3.2006) enhanced ASYNCHRONOUS attribute

[Bill Long]

On 7/13/11 3:38 AM, Robert Corbett wrote:
> Does Clause 2.4 of DPTR 29113 change the language
> specified by the Fortran 2008 standard in any way?

In practice, yes.  A Fortran implementation that implements all 
asynchronous I/O as synchronous I/O (allowed by the standard) can 
effectively ignore the ASYNCHRONOUS attribute.  The new wording 
disallows that option.

Cheers,
Bill


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