Bill Long wrote:

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2) The Fortran implementation will take the performance penalty of using a wrapper routine to perform the operation (discounting sophisticated IPA/WPA (interprocedural analysis/whole program analysis)). Taking this performance penalty is common but not universal.

I agree there will be call overhead for the user who accesses MPI through the include file mechanism, unless, as you say, there is a sophisticated IPA/WPA mode in the compiler. However, the compiler does not have to be all that sophisticated to inline a module routine. The compiler has to know how to find the module information at compile time, and could have access to all the information needed to inline the wrapper.

My possibly wrong impression is that only the Cray Fortran compiler does so. I think most (all?) other compiler have a .mod file which contains the interface of the procedures but not the procedure code itself. Hence, they do not do any inlining at this stage. Those compilers will presumably only do this kind of optimization with multi-file interprocedural optimization (IPO)/link-time optimization (LTO). That crayftn does this inlining earlier is probably also a consequence of (by default) storing the module-interface information in the .o file instead of using a separate .mod file. If one already has the .o file, considering IPO is more obvious than if assembler code and module information are separated into .mod and .o files. * * * Regarding the latest PDF, I also have two nits: * [p.13,ll. 5-17] The example lists several directives to disable TKR checks. It should add the following* to the list: !GCC$ ATTRIBUTES NO_ARG_CHECK which GCC/gfortran now supports.* * [p.17] The TS29113 reference should be updated now that it is an approved ISO Technical Specification. Additionally, the name has now an "of Fortran" in the name: "Further Interoperability of Fortran with C" and latest draft (FDTS) is N1942, which contains some minor changes. See http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnum... and ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1901-N1950/N1942.pdf Tobias * Cf. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html