[J3] Proposals for new intrinsic procedures

[Jeff Hammond]

Brandon Cook already requested prefix_sum already and Brent Leback implemented it in our compiler based on the prior work in HPF. It’s a great feature. I’m glad you can drive the proposal.

Jeff

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> On 5. Jan 2023, at 21.35, Brad Richardson via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> Would proposals for new intrinsic functions be acceptable to submit for
> the upcoming meeting? Specifically I've been asked to write up the
> papers for:
> 
> * prefix sum (commonly known as scan, but of course that name's already
> taken), both inclusive and exclusive
> * All functions recommended by IEEE-754, most of which Fortran already
> has, but the whole list is reproduced below
> 
> exp
> expm1
> exp2
> exp2m1
> exp10
> exp10m1
> log
> log2
> log10
> logp1
> log2p1
> log10p1
> hypot
> rSqrt
> compound
> rootn
> pown
> sin
> cos
> tan
> sinPi
> cosPi
> tanPi
> asin
> acos
> atan
> atan2
> sinh
> cosh
> tanh
> acosh
> atanh
> 
> Some points of order questions also. Which subgroup is in charge of the
> intrinsic procedures so that I can coordinate with them? Would it be
> best to write a separate paper for each new procedure, put them all in
> a single paper, or some scheme for grouping certain subsets? And whilst
> we don't have final version of F2023 to draft the edits against, would
> it be worthwhile to go ahead and detail out what they will look like?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
>