Intel Fortran Compiler 11.0 for Linux
Compatibility & System Requirements
Standards Compliance and Broad Compatibility
The Intel Fortran Compiler fully supports the Fortran 95 language standard, as well as the previous standards Fortran 90, Fortran 77 and Fortran IV. It also includes many features from the Fortran 2003 language standard, as well as numerous popular language extensions. Significant supported language extensions include:
- Quadruple precision REAL data type REAL(16)
- STRUCTURE, RECORD, UNION, MAP syntax for user-defined types
- Directives and functions to enhance mixed-language application development
- Binary stream I/O
For a complete list of language features, see the product documentation.
The Intel Fortran Compiler also enhances programmer productivity with features such as:
- Run-time array and string bounds checking
- Cross-file procedure interface checking
- Run-time uninitialized variable detection
- Error traceback with file name and line number
Winning Performance across Application Domains
The Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux delivers exceptional performance, usability, and business advantages to a wide variety of software markets.
Next-generation data-intensive application developers benefit from dramatic performance optimizations using the Intel compilers to decrease latency and processing times, while also allowing software architects to add additional features without unacceptable impacts to performance.
Scientific, research, and related applications benefit from fast compile times, high-performance execution, and solid technical support. Numerically intensive software can make excellent use of the parallelism in Intel processor-based platforms.
Refer to the Intel Software Development Products Web site for details on system requirements for Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux.