Fortran - Intel Fortran on Mac?

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Intel Fortran on Mac?

Richard E Maine

2005-06-06, 8:57 pm

So Steve,

Do I understand correctly that I can expect to see an Intel Fortran for
Mac OS X (on Intel)?

Clearly, I don't mean to ask you to say anything that you can't. Sounded
to me like plans for such a product were all but announced publicly,
though.

Of course, I have a feeling that this also means that IBM Fortran for OS
X has a limited future. :-(

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Brooks Moses

2005-06-06, 8:57 pm

Richard E Maine wrote:
> So Steve,
>
> Do I understand correctly that I can expect to see an Intel Fortran for
> Mac OS X (on Intel)?

*laughs* I was just about to ask the exact same question!

- Brooks

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Ron Shepard

2005-06-07, 3:57 am

In article <nospam-26146B.14213106062005@news.supernews.com>,
Richard E Maine <nospam@see.signature> wrote:

> Do I understand correctly that I can expect to see an Intel Fortran for
> Mac OS X (on Intel)?
>
> Clearly, I don't mean to ask you to say anything that you can't. Sounded
> to me like plans for such a product were all but announced publicly,
> though.
>
> Of course, I have a feeling that this also means that IBM Fortran for OS
> X has a limited future. :-(

I watched the keynote, and it seems to be that compilers are
supposed to generate both PPC and X86 code, and both sets of objects
are linked together in the "universal" binary format.

As for IBM fortran, they have not yet updated their compiler for the
latest 10.4 OS (which has now been out for 5 w

s). I wondered why
they were taking so long, maybe this is why?

$.02 -Ron Shepard

2005-06-07, 8:59 am

> I watched the keynote, and it seems to be that compilers are supposed
> to generate both PPC and X86 code, and both sets of objects are linked
> together in the "universal" binary format.

What I understood is that some compilers (include the Xcode toolchain)
will be able to generate both ppc and x86 code (but then, the framework
for that is hanging around since the very first OS X). But nothing
requires that you do it that way (and Xcode will probably be linking in
codes coming from two different C compilers, one for x86 and one for
ppc).

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Steve Lionel

2005-06-07, 4:02 pm

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:10:23 -0700, Brooks Moses
<bmoses-nospam@cits1.stanford.edu> wrote:

>Richard E Maine wrote:
>
>*laughs* I was just about to ask the exact same question!

Hmm - my server doesn't show the earlier posts in this thread. Annoying. So
my apologies if I seem to be duplicating content.

Anyway, yes, that is what was announced. Quoting the press release:

"Intel plans to provide industry leading development tools support for Apple
later this year, including the Intel C/C++ Compiler for Apple, Intel Fortran
Compiler for Apple, Intel Math Kernel Libraries for Apple and Intel Integrated
Performance Primitives for Apple. "

It's funny - for years, we at CVF support would get the occasional request for
MacOS support (and AIX and Solaris and a few others.) I never dreamed we'd
actually be doing it (MacOS, I mean - not the others - yet...) someday...

The reaction around here is very positive - there are lots of Mac fans at
Intel.

Steve Lionel
Software Products Division
Intel Corporation
Nashua, NH

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