On Nov 9, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Jeff Hammond <[email protected]> wrote:

What does processor-specific mean? It is specific to the manufacturer, the ISA, the SKU number, the serial number, ...? I can't even fathom what sort of terrible thinking lead someone to write such a phrase in a language standard.

Why not do what everyone else does and say "implementation-specific"? I don't even think the behavior is remotely sensitive to the processor. The support for EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE is primarily a function of the OS, which is not a very different thing than a processor.

Processor and processor dependent are both defined terms in the Fortran standard: • processor combination of a computing system and mechanism by which programs are transformed for use on that computing system • processor dependent not completely specified in this part of ISO/IEC 1539, having methods and semantics determined by the processor So, “processor” includes the compiler, hardware, and OS. Cheers, Bill Bill Long [email protected] Fortran Technical Support & voice: 651-605-9024 Bioinformatics Software Development fax: 651-605-9142 Cray Inc./ Cray Plaza, Suite 210/ 380 Jackson St./ St. Paul, MN 55101