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NAME
gfortran - GNU Fortran compiler
SYNOPSIS
gfortran [-c|-S|-E]
[-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
[-Wwarn...] [-pedantic]
[-Idir...] [-Ldir...]
[-Dmacro[=defn]...] [-Umacro]
[-foption...]
[-mmachine-option...]
[-o outfile] infile...
Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for the remainder.
DESCRIPTION
The gfortran command supports all the options supported by the gcc command. Only options specific to GNU
Fortran are documented here.
All GCC and GNU Fortran options are accepted both by gfortran and by gcc (as well as any other drivers
built at the same time, such as g++), since adding GNU Fortran to the GCC distribution enables acceptance
of GNU Fortran options by all of the relevant drivers.
In some cases, options have positive and negative forms; the negative form of -ffoo would be -fno-foo.
This manual documents only one of these two forms, whichever one is not the default.
OPTIONS
Here is a summary of all the options specific to GNU Fortran, grouped by type. Explanations are in the
following sections.
Fortran Language Options
-fall-intrinsics -fbackslash -fcray-pointer -fd-lines-as-code -fd-lines-as-comments
-fdefault-double-8 -fdefault-integer-8 -fdefault-real-8 -fdollar-ok -ffixed-line-length-n
-ffixed-line-length-none -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-n -ffree-line-length-none -fimplicit-none
-finteger-4-integer-8 -fmax-identifier-length -fmodule-private -fno-fixed-form -fno-range-check
-fopenmp -freal-4-real-10 -freal-4-real-16 -freal-4-real-8 -freal-8-real-10 -freal-8-real-16
-freal-8-real-4 -std=std
Preprocessing Options
-A-question[=answer] -Aquestion=answer -C -CC -Dmacro[=defn] -H -P -Umacro -cpp -dD -dI -dM -dN -dU
-fworking-directory -imultilib dir -iprefix file -iquote -isysroot dir -isystem dir -nocpp -nostdinc
-undef
Error and Warning Options
-Waliasing -Wall -Wampersand -Warray-bounds -Wcharacter-truncation -Wconversion
-Wfunction-elimination -Wimplicit-interface -Wimplicit-procedure -Wintrinsic-shadow -Wintrinsics-std
-Wline-truncation -Wno-align-commons -Wno-tabs -Wreal-q-constant -Wsurprising -Wunderflow
-Wunused-parameter -fmax-errors=n -fsyntax-only -pedantic -pedantic-errors
Debugging Options
-fbacktrace -fdump-fortran-optimized -fdump-fortran-original -fdump-parse-tree -ffpe-trap=list
Directory Options
-Idir -Jdir -fintrinsic-modules-path dir
Link Options
-static-libgfortran
Runtime Options
-fconvert=conversion -fmax-subrecord-length=length -fno-range-check -frecord-marker=length
-fsign-zero
Code Generation Options
-faggressive-function-elimination -fblas-matmul-limit=n -fbounds-check -fcheck-array-temporaries
-fcheck=<all|array-temps|bounds|do|mem|pointer|recursion> -fcoarray=<none|single|lib> -fexternal-blas
-ff2c -ffrontend-optimize -finit-character=n -finit-integer=n -finit-local-zero
-finit-logical=<true|false> -finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> -fmax-array-constructor=n
-fmax-stack-var-size=n -fno-align-commons -fno-automatic -fno-protect-parens -fno-underscoring
-fno-whole-file -fsecond-underscore -fpack-derived -frealloc-lhs -frecursive -frepack-arrays
-fshort-enums -fstack-arrays
Options controlling Fortran dialect
The following options control the details of the Fortran dialect accepted by the compiler:
-ffree-form
-ffixed-form
Specify the layout used by the source file. The free form layout was introduced in Fortran 90.
Fixed form was traditionally used in older Fortran programs. When neither option is specified, the
source form is determined by the file extension.
-fall-intrinsics
This option causes all intrinsic procedures (including the GNU-specific extensions) to be accepted.
This can be useful with -std=f95 to force standard-compliance but get access to the full range of
intrinsics available with gfortran. As a consequence, -Wintrinsics-std will be ignored and no user-
defined procedure with the same name as any intrinsic will be called except when it is explicitly
declared "EXTERNAL".
-fd-lines-as-code
-fd-lines-as-comments
Enable special treatment for lines beginning with "d" or "D" in fixed form sources. If the
-fd-lines-as-code option is given they are treated as if the first column contained a blank. If the
-fd-lines-as-comments option is given, they are treated as comment lines.
-fdefault-double-8
Set the "DOUBLE PRECISION" type to an 8 byte wide type. If -fdefault-real-8 is given, "DOUBLE
PRECISION" would instead be promoted to 16 bytes if possible, and -fdefault-double-8 can be used to
prevent this. The kind of real constants like "1.d0" will not be changed by -fdefault-real-8 though,
so also -fdefault-double-8 does not affect it.
-fdefault-integer-8
Set the default integer and logical types to an 8 byte wide type. Do nothing if this is already the
default. This option also affects the kind of integer constants like 42.
-fdefault-real-8
Set the default real type to an 8 byte wide type. Do nothing if this is already the default. This
option also affects the kind of non-double real constants like 1.0, and does promote the default
width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" to 16 bytes if possible, unless "-fdefault-double-8" is given, too.
-fdollar-ok
Allow $ as a valid non-first character in a symbol name. Symbols that start with $ are rejected since
it is unclear which rules to apply to implicit typing as different vendors implement different rules.
Using $ in "IMPLICIT" statements is also rejected.
-fbackslash
Change the interpretation of backslashes in string literals from a single backslash character to
"C-style" escape characters. The following combinations are expanded "\a", "\b", "\f", "\n", "\r",
"\t", "\v", "\\", and "\0" to the ASCII characters alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage
return, horizontal tab, vertical tab, backslash, and NUL, respectively. Additionally, "\x"nn,
"\u"nnnn and "\U"nnnnnnnn (where each n is a hexadecimal digit) are translated into the Unicode
characters corresponding to the specified code points. All other combinations of a character preceded
by \ are unexpanded.
-fmodule-private
Set the default accessibility of module entities to "PRIVATE". Use-associated entities will not be
accessible unless they are explicitly declared as "PUBLIC".
-ffixed-line-length-n
Set column after which characters are ignored in typical fixed-form lines in the source file, and
through which spaces are assumed (as if padded to that length) after the ends of short fixed-form
lines.
Popular values for n include 72 (the standard and the default), 80 (card image), and 132
(corresponding to "extended-source" options in some popular compilers). n may also be none, meaning
that the entire line is meaningful and that continued character constants never have implicit spaces
appended to them to fill out the line. -ffixed-line-length-0 means the same thing as
-ffixed-line-length-none.
-ffree-line-length-n
Set column after which characters are ignored in typical free-form lines in the source file. The
default value is 132. n may be none, meaning that the entire line is meaningful.
-ffree-line-length-0 means the same thing as -ffree-line-length-none.
-fmax-identifier-length=n
Specify the maximum allowed identifier length. Typical values are 31 (Fortran 95) and 63 (Fortran
2003 and Fortran 2008).
-fimplicit-none
Specify that no implicit typing is allowed, unless overridden by explicit "IMPLICIT" statements.
This is the equivalent of adding "implicit none" to the start of every procedure.
-finteger-4-integer-8
Promote all "INTEGER(KIND=4)" entities to an "INTEGER(KIND=8)" entities. If "KIND=8" is unavailable,
then an error will be issued. This option should be used with care and may not be suitable for your
codes. Areas of possible concern include calls to external procedures, alignment in "EQUIVALENCE"
and/or "COMMON", generic interfaces, BOZ literal constant conversion, and I/O. Inspection of the
intermediate representation of the translated Fortran code, produced by -fdump-tree-original, is
suggested.
-fcray-pointer
Enable the Cray pointer extension, which provides C-like pointer functionality.
-fopenmp
Enable the OpenMP extensions. This includes OpenMP "!$omp" directives in free form and "c$omp",
*$omp and "!$omp" directives in fixed form, "!$" conditional compilation sentinels in free form and
"c$", "*$" and "!$" sentinels in fixed form, and when linking arranges for the OpenMP runtime library
to be linked in. The option -fopenmp implies -frecursive.
-fno-range-check
Disable range checking on results of simplification of constant expressions during compilation. For
example, GNU Fortran will give an error at compile time when simplifying "a = 1. / 0". With this
option, no error will be given and "a" will be assigned the value "+Infinity". If an expression
evaluates to a value outside of the relevant range of ["-HUGE()":"HUGE()"], then the expression will
be replaced by "-Inf" or "+Inf" as appropriate. Similarly, "DATA i/Z'FFFFFFFF'/" will result in an
integer overflow on most systems, but with -fno-range-check the value will "wrap around" and "i" will
be initialized to -1 instead.
-freal-4-real-8
-freal-4-real-10
-freal-8-real-4
-freal-8-real-10
-freal-8-real-16
Promote all "REAL(KIND=M)" entities to "REAL(KIND=N)" entities. If "REAL(KIND=N)" is unavailable,
then an error will be issued. All other real kind types are unaffected by this option. These
options should be used with care and may not be suitable for your codes. Areas of possible concern
include calls to external procedures, alignment in "EQUIVALENCE" and/or "COMMON", generic interfaces,
BOZ literal constant conversion, and I/O. Inspection of the intermediate representation of the
translated Fortran code, produced by -fdump-tree-original, is suggested.
-std=std
Specify the standard to which the program is expected to conform, which may be one of f95, f2003,
f2008, gnu, or legacy. The default value for std is gnu, which specifies a superset of the Fortran
95 standard that includes all of the extensions supported by GNU Fortran, although warnings will be
given for obsolete extensions not recommended for use in new code. The legacy value is equivalent
but without the warnings for obsolete extensions, and may be useful for old non-standard programs.
The f95, f2003 and f2008 values specify strict conformance to the Fortran 95, Fortran 2003 and
Fortran 2008 standards, respectively; errors are given for all extensions beyond the relevant
language standard, and warnings are given for the Fortran 77 features that are permitted but
obsolescent in later standards. -std=f2008ts allows the Fortran 2008 standard including the additions
of the Technical Specification (TS) 29113 on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C.
Enable and customize preprocessing
Preprocessor related options. See section Preprocessing and conditional compilation for more detailed
information on preprocessing in gfortran.
-cpp
-nocpp
Enable preprocessing. The preprocessor is automatically invoked if the file extension is .fpp, .FPP,
.F, .FOR, .FTN, .F90, .F95, .F03 or .F08. Use this option to manually enable preprocessing of any
kind of Fortran file.
To disable preprocessing of files with any of the above listed extensions, use the negative form:
-nocpp.
The preprocessor is run in traditional mode. Any restrictions of the file-format, especially the
limits on line length, apply for preprocessed output as well, so it might be advisable to use the
-ffree-line-length-none or -ffixed-line-length-none options.
-dM Instead of the normal output, generate a list of '#define' directives for all the macros defined
during the execution of the preprocessor, including predefined macros. This gives you a way of
finding out what is predefined in your version of the preprocessor. Assuming you have no file
foo.f90, the command
touch foo.f90; gfortran -cpp -E -dM foo.f90
will show all the predefined macros.
-dD Like -dM except in two respects: it does not include the predefined macros, and it outputs both the
"#define" directives and the result of preprocessing. Both kinds of output go to the standard output
file.
-dN Like -dD, but emit only the macro names, not their expansions.
-dU Like dD except that only macros that are expanded, or whose definedness is tested in preprocessor
directives, are output; the output is delayed until the use or test of the macro; and '#undef'
directives are also output for macros tested but undefined at the time.
-dI Output '#include' directives in addition to the result of preprocessing.
-fworking-directory
Enable generation of linemarkers in the preprocessor output that will let the compiler know the
current working directory at the time of preprocessing. When this option is enabled, the preprocessor
will emit, after the initial linemarker, a second linemarker with the current working directory
followed by two slashes. GCC will use this directory, when it is present in the preprocessed input,
as the directory emitted as the current working directory in some debugging information formats.
This option is implicitly enabled if debugging information is enabled, but this can be inhibited with
the negated form -fno-working-directory. If the -P flag is present in the command line, this option
has no effect, since no "#line" directives are emitted whatsoever.
-idirafter dir
Search dir for include files, but do it after all directories specified with -I and the standard
system directories have been exhausted. dir is treated as a system include directory. If dir begins
with "=", then the "=" will be replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.
-imultilib dir
Use dir as a subdirectory of the directory containing target-specific C++ headers.
-iprefix prefix
Specify prefix as the prefix for subsequent -iwithprefix options. If the prefix represents a
directory, you should include the final '/'.
-isysroot dir
This option is like the --sysroot option, but applies only to header files. See the --sysroot option
for more information.
-iquote dir
Search dir only for header files requested with "#include "file""; they are not searched for
"#include <file>", before all directories specified by -I and before the standard system directories.
If dir begins with "=", then the "=" will be replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and
-isysroot.
-isystem dir
Search dir for header files, after all directories specified by -I but before the standard system
directories. Mark it as a system directory, so that it gets the same special treatment as is applied
to the standard system directories. If dir begins with "=", then the "=" will be replaced by the
sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.
-nostdinc
Do not search the standard system directories for header files. Only the directories you have
specified with -I options (and the directory of the current file, if appropriate) are searched.
-undef
Do not predefine any system-specific or GCC-specific macros. The standard predefined macros remain
defined.
-Apredicate=answer
Make an assertion with the predicate predicate and answer answer. This form is preferred to the
older form -A predicate(answer), which is still supported, because it does not use shell special
characters.
-A-predicate=answer
Cancel an assertion with the predicate predicate and answer answer.
-C Do not discard comments. All comments are passed through to the output file, except for comments in
processed directives, which are deleted along with the directive.
You should be prepared for side effects when using -C; it causes the preprocessor to treat comments
as tokens in their own right. For example, comments appearing at the start of what would be a
directive line have the effect of turning that line into an ordinary source line, since the first
token on the line is no longer a '#'.
Warning: this currently handles C-Style comments only. The preprocessor does not yet recognize
Fortran-style comments.
-CC Do not discard comments, including during macro expansion. This is like -C, except that comments
contained within macros are also passed through to the output file where the macro is expanded.
In addition to the side-effects of the -C option, the -CC option causes all C++-style comments inside
a macro to be converted to C-style comments. This is to prevent later use of that macro from
inadvertently commenting out the remainder of the source line. The -CC option is generally used to
support lint comments.
Warning: this currently handles C- and C++-Style comments only. The preprocessor does not yet
recognize Fortran-style comments.
-Dname
Predefine name as a macro, with definition 1.
-Dname=definition
The contents of definition are tokenized and processed as if they appeared during translation phase
three in a '#define' directive. In particular, the definition will be truncated by embedded newline
characters.
If you are invoking the preprocessor from a shell or shell-like program you may need to use the
shell's quoting syntax to protect characters such as spaces that have a meaning in the shell syntax.
If you wish to define a function-like macro on the command line, write its argument list with
surrounding parentheses before the equals sign (if any). Parentheses are meaningful to most shells,
so you will need to quote the option. With sh and csh, "-D'name(args...)=definition'" works.
-D and -U options are processed in the order they are given on the command line. All -imacros file
and -include file options are processed after all -D and -U options.
-H Print the name of each header file used, in addition to other normal activities. Each name is
indented to show how deep in the '#include' stack it is.
-P Inhibit generation of linemarkers in the output from the preprocessor. This might be useful when
running the preprocessor on something that is not C code, and will be sent to a program which might
be confused by the linemarkers.
-Uname
Cancel any previous definition of name, either built in or provided with a -D option.
Options to request or suppress errors and warnings
Errors are diagnostic messages that report that the GNU Fortran compiler cannot compile the relevant
piece of source code. The compiler will continue to process the program in an attempt to report further
errors to aid in debugging, but will not produce any compiled output.
Warnings are diagnostic messages that report constructions which are not inherently erroneous but which
are risky or suggest there is likely to be a bug in the program. Unless -Werror is specified, they do
not prevent compilation of the program.
You can request many specific warnings with options beginning -W, for example -Wimplicit to request
warnings on implicit declarations. Each of these specific warning options also has a negative form
beginning -Wno- to turn off warnings; for example, -Wno-implicit. This manual lists only one of the two
forms, whichever is not the default.
These options control the amount and kinds of errors and warnings produced by GNU Fortran:
-fmax-errors=n
Limits the maximum number of error messages to n, at which point GNU Fortran bails out rather than
attempting to continue processing the source code. If n is 0, there is no limit on the number of
error messages produced.
-fsyntax-only
Check the code for syntax errors, but do not actually compile it. This will generate module files
for each module present in the code, but no other output file.
-pedantic
Issue warnings for uses of extensions to Fortran 95. -pedantic also applies to C-language constructs
where they occur in GNU Fortran source files, such as use of \e in a character constant within a
directive like "#include".
Valid Fortran 95 programs should compile properly with or without this option. However, without this
option, certain GNU extensions and traditional Fortran features are supported as well. With this
option, many of them are rejected.
Some users try to use -pedantic to check programs for conformance. They soon find that it does not
do quite what they want---it finds some nonstandard practices, but not all. However, improvements to
GNU Fortran in this area are welcome.
This should be used in conjunction with -std=f95, -std=f2003 or -std=f2008.
-pedantic-errors
Like -pedantic, except that errors are produced rather than warnings.
-Wall
Enables commonly used warning options pertaining to usage that we recommend avoiding and that we
believe are easy to avoid. This currently includes -Waliasing, -Wampersand, -Wconversion,
-Wsurprising, -Wintrinsics-std, -Wno-tabs, -Wintrinsic-shadow, -Wline-truncation, -Wreal-q-constant
and -Wunused.
-Waliasing
Warn about possible aliasing of dummy arguments. Specifically, it warns if the same actual argument
is associated with a dummy argument with "INTENT(IN)" and a dummy argument with "INTENT(OUT)" in a
call with an explicit interface.
The following example will trigger the warning.
interface
subroutine bar(a,b)
integer, intent(in) :: a
integer, intent(out) :: b
end subroutine
end interface
integer :: a
call bar(a,a)
-Wampersand
Warn about missing ampersand in continued character constants. The warning is given with -Wampersand,
-pedantic, -std=f95, -std=f2003 and -std=f2008. Note: With no ampersand given in a continued
character constant, GNU Fortran assumes continuation at the first non-comment, non-whitespace
character after the ampersand that initiated the continuation.
-Warray-temporaries
Warn about array temporaries generated by the compiler. The information generated by this warning is
sometimes useful in optimization, in order to avoid such temporaries.
-Wcharacter-truncation
Warn when a character assignment will truncate the assigned string.
-Wline-truncation
Warn when a source code line will be truncated.
-Wconversion
Warn about implicit conversions that are likely to change the value of the expression after
conversion. Implied by -Wall.
-Wconversion-extra
Warn about implicit conversions between different types and kinds.
-Wimplicit-interface
Warn if a procedure is called without an explicit interface. Note this only checks that an explicit
interface is present. It does not check that the declared interfaces are consistent across program
units.
-Wimplicit-procedure
Warn if a procedure is called that has neither an explicit interface nor has been declared as
"EXTERNAL".
-Wintrinsics-std
Warn if gfortran finds a procedure named like an intrinsic not available in the currently selected
standard (with -std) and treats it as "EXTERNAL" procedure because of this. -fall-intrinsics can be
used to never trigger this behavior and always link to the intrinsic regardless of the selected
standard.
-Wreal-q-constant
Produce a warning if a real-literal-constant contains a "q" exponent-letter.
-Wsurprising
Produce a warning when "suspicious" code constructs are encountered. While technically legal these
usually indicate that an error has been made.
This currently produces a warning under the following circumstances:
• An INTEGER SELECT construct has a CASE that can never be matched as its lower value is greater
than its upper value.
• A LOGICAL SELECT construct has three CASE statements.
• A TRANSFER specifies a source that is shorter than the destination.
• The type of a function result is declared more than once with the same type. If -pedantic or
standard-conforming mode is enabled, this is an error.
• A "CHARACTER" variable is declared with negative length.
-Wtabs
By default, tabs are accepted as whitespace, but tabs are not members of the Fortran Character Set.
For continuation lines, a tab followed by a digit between 1 and 9 is supported. -Wno-tabs will cause
a warning to be issued if a tab is encountered. Note, -Wno-tabs is active for -pedantic, -std=f95,
-std=f2003, -std=f2008 and -Wall.
-Wunderflow
Produce a warning when numerical constant expressions are encountered, which yield an UNDERFLOW
during compilation.
-Wintrinsic-shadow
Warn if a user-defined procedure or module procedure has the same name as an intrinsic; in this case,
an explicit interface or "EXTERNAL" or "INTRINSIC" declaration might be needed to get calls later
resolved to the desired intrinsic/procedure.
-Wunused-dummy-argument
Warn about unused dummy arguments. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wunused-parameter
Contrary to gcc's meaning of -Wunused-parameter, gfortran's implementation of this option does not
warn about unused dummy arguments (see -Wunused-dummy-argument), but about unused "PARAMETER" values.
-Wunused-parameter is not included in -Wall but is implied by -Wall -Wextra.
-Walign-commons
By default, gfortran warns about any occasion of variables being padded for proper alignment inside a
"COMMON" block. This warning can be turned off via -Wno-align-commons. See also -falign-commons.
-Wfunction-elimination
Warn if any calls to functions are eliminated by the optimizations enabled by the -ffrontend-optimize
option.
-Werror
Turns all warnings into errors.
Some of these have no effect when compiling programs written in Fortran.
Options for debugging your program or GNU Fortran
GNU Fortran has various special options that are used for debugging either your program or the GNU
Fortran compiler.
-fdump-fortran-original
Output the internal parse tree after translating the source program into internal representation.
Only really useful for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself.
-fdump-fortran-optimized
Output the parse tree after front-end optimization. Only really useful for debugging the GNU Fortran
compiler itself.
-fdump-parse-tree
Output the internal parse tree after translating the source program into internal representation.
Only really useful for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. This option is deprecated; use
"-fdump-fortran-original" instead.
-ffpe-trap=list
Specify a list of floating point exception traps to enable. On most systems, if a floating point
exception occurs and the trap for that exception is enabled, a SIGFPE signal will be sent and the
program being aborted, producing a core file useful for debugging. list is a (possibly empty) comma-
separated list of the following exceptions: invalid (invalid floating point operation, such as
"SQRT(-1.0)"), zero (division by zero), overflow (overflow in a floating point operation), underflow
(underflow in a floating point operation), inexact (loss of precision during operation), and denormal
(operation performed on a denormal value). The first five exceptions correspond to the five IEEE 754
exceptions, whereas the last one (denormal) is not part of the IEEE 754 standard but is available on
some common architectures such as x86.
The first three exceptions (invalid, zero, and overflow) often indicate serious errors, and unless
the program has provisions for dealing with these exceptions, enabling traps for these three
exceptions is probably a good idea.
Many, if not most, floating point operations incur loss of precision due to rounding, and hence the
"ffpe-trap=inexact" is likely to be uninteresting in practice.
By default no exception traps are enabled.
-fno-backtrace
When a serious runtime error is encountered or a deadly signal is emitted (segmentation fault,
illegal instruction, bus error, floating-point exception, and the other POSIX signals that have the
action core), the Fortran runtime library tries to output a backtrace of the error. "-fno-backtrace"
disables the backtrace generation. This option only has influence for compilation of the Fortran main
program.
Options for directory search
These options affect how GNU Fortran searches for files specified by the "INCLUDE" directive and where it
searches for previously compiled modules.
It also affects the search paths used by cpp when used to preprocess Fortran source.
-Idir
These affect interpretation of the "INCLUDE" directive (as well as of the "#include" directive of the
cpp preprocessor).
Also note that the general behavior of -I and "INCLUDE" is pretty much the same as of -I with
"#include" in the cpp preprocessor, with regard to looking for header.gcc files and other such
things.
This path is also used to search for .mod files when previously compiled modules are required by a
"USE" statement.
-Jdir
This option specifies where to put .mod files for compiled modules. It is also added to the list of
directories to searched by an "USE" statement.
The default is the current directory.
-fintrinsic-modules-path dir
This option specifies the location of pre-compiled intrinsic modules, if they are not in the default
location expected by the compiler.
Influencing the linking step
These options come into play when the compiler links object files into an executable output file. They
are meaningless if the compiler is not doing a link step.
-static-libgfortran
On systems that provide libgfortran as a shared and a static library, this option forces the use of
the static version. If no shared version of libgfortran was built when the compiler was configured,
this option has no effect.
Influencing runtime behavior
These options affect the runtime behavior of programs compiled with GNU Fortran.
-fconvert=conversion
Specify the representation of data for unformatted files. Valid values for conversion are: native,
the default; swap, swap between big- and little-endian; big-endian, use big-endian representation for
unformatted files; little-endian, use little-endian representation for unformatted files.
This option has an effect only when used in the main program. The "CONVERT" specifier and the
GFORTRAN_CONVERT_UNIT environment variable override the default specified by -fconvert.
-fno-range-check
Disable range checking of input values during integer "READ" operations. For example, GNU Fortran
will give an error if an input value is outside of the relevant range of ["-HUGE()":"HUGE()"]. In
other words, with "INTEGER (kind=4) :: i" , attempting to read -2147483648 will give an error unless
-fno-range-check is given.
-frecord-marker=length
Specify the length of record markers for unformatted files. Valid values for length are 4 and 8.
Default is 4. This is different from previous versions of gfortran, which specified a default record
marker length of 8 on most systems. If you want to read or write files compatible with earlier
versions of gfortran, use -frecord-marker=8.
-fmax-subrecord-length=length
Specify the maximum length for a subrecord. The maximum permitted value for length is 2147483639,
which is also the default. Only really useful for use by the gfortran testsuite.
-fsign-zero
When enabled, floating point numbers of value zero with the sign bit set are written as negative
number in formatted output and treated as negative in the "SIGN" intrinsic. -fno-sign-zero does not
print the negative sign of zero values (or values rounded to zero for I/O) and regards zero as
positive number in the "SIGN" intrinsic for compatibility with Fortran 77. The default is
-fsign-zero.
Options for code generation conventions
These machine-independent options control the interface conventions used in code generation.
Most of them have both positive and negative forms; the negative form of -ffoo would be -fno-foo. In the
table below, only one of the forms is listed---the one which is not the default. You can figure out the
other form by either removing no- or adding it.
-fno-automatic
Treat each program unit (except those marked as RECURSIVE) as if the "SAVE" statement were specified
for every local variable and array referenced in it. Does not affect common blocks. (Some Fortran
compilers provide this option under the name -static or -save.) The default, which is -fautomatic,
uses the stack for local variables smaller than the value given by -fmax-stack-var-size. Use the
option -frecursive to use no static memory.
-ff2c
Generate code designed to be compatible with code generated by g77 and f2c.
The calling conventions used by g77 (originally implemented in f2c) require functions that return
type default "REAL" to actually return the C type "double", and functions that return type "COMPLEX"
to return the values via an extra argument in the calling sequence that points to where to store the
return value. Under the default GNU calling conventions, such functions simply return their results
as they would in GNU C---default "REAL" functions return the C type "float", and "COMPLEX" functions
return the GNU C type "complex". Additionally, this option implies the -fsecond-underscore option,
unless -fno-second-underscore is explicitly requested.
This does not affect the generation of code that interfaces with the libgfortran library.
Caution: It is not a good idea to mix Fortran code compiled with -ff2c with code compiled with the
default -fno-f2c calling conventions as, calling "COMPLEX" or default "REAL" functions between
program parts which were compiled with different calling conventions will break at execution time.
Caution: This will break code which passes intrinsic functions of type default "REAL" or "COMPLEX" as
actual arguments, as the library implementations use the -fno-f2c calling conventions.
-fno-underscoring
Do not transform names of entities specified in the Fortran source file by appending underscores to
them.
With -funderscoring in effect, GNU Fortran appends one underscore to external names with no
underscores. This is done to ensure compatibility with code produced by many UNIX Fortran compilers.
Caution: The default behavior of GNU Fortran is incompatible with f2c and g77, please use the -ff2c
option if you want object files compiled with GNU Fortran to be compatible with object code created
with these tools.
Use of -fno-underscoring is not recommended unless you are experimenting with issues such as
integration of GNU Fortran into existing system environments (vis-a-vis existing libraries, tools,
and so on).
For example, with -funderscoring, and assuming other defaults like -fcase-lower and that "j()" and
"max_count()" are external functions while "my_var" and "lvar" are local variables, a statement like
I = J() + MAX_COUNT (MY_VAR, LVAR)
is implemented as something akin to:
i = j_() + max_count__(&my_var__, &lvar);
With -fno-underscoring, the same statement is implemented as:
i = j() + max_count(&my_var, &lvar);
Use of -fno-underscoring allows direct specification of user-defined names while debugging and when
interfacing GNU Fortran code with other languages.
Note that just because the names match does not mean that the interface implemented by GNU Fortran
for an external name matches the interface implemented by some other language for that same name.
That is, getting code produced by GNU Fortran to link to code produced by some other compiler using
this or any other method can be only a small part of the overall solution---getting the code
generated by both compilers to agree on issues other than naming can require significant effort, and,
unlike naming disagreements, linkers normally cannot detect disagreements in these other areas.
Also, note that with -fno-underscoring, the lack of appended underscores introduces the very real
possibility that a user-defined external name will conflict with a name in a system library, which
could make finding unresolved-reference bugs quite difficult in some cases---they might occur at
program run time, and show up only as buggy behavior at run time.
In future versions of GNU Fortran we hope to improve naming and linking issues so that debugging
always involves using the names as they appear in the source, even if the names as seen by the linker
are mangled to prevent accidental linking between procedures with incompatible interfaces.
-fno-whole-file
This flag causes the compiler to resolve and translate each procedure in a file separately.
By default, the whole file is parsed and placed in a single front-end tree. During resolution, in
addition to all the usual checks and fixups, references to external procedures that are in the same
file effect resolution of that procedure, if not already done, and a check of the interfaces. The
dependences are resolved by changing the order in which the file is translated into the backend tree.
Thus, a procedure that is referenced is translated before the reference and the duplication of
backend tree declarations eliminated.
The -fno-whole-file option is deprecated and may lead to wrong code.
-fsecond-underscore
By default, GNU Fortran appends an underscore to external names. If this option is used GNU Fortran
appends two underscores to names with underscores and one underscore to external names with no
underscores. GNU Fortran also appends two underscores to internal names with underscores to avoid
naming collisions with external names.
This option has no effect if -fno-underscoring is in effect. It is implied by the -ff2c option.
Otherwise, with this option, an external name such as "MAX_COUNT" is implemented as a reference to
the link-time external symbol "max_count__", instead of "max_count_". This is required for
compatibility with g77 and f2c, and is implied by use of the -ff2c option.
-fcoarray=<keyword>
none
Disable coarray support; using coarray declarations and image-control statements will produce a
compile-time error. (Default)
single
Single-image mode, i.e. "num_images()" is always one.
lib Library-based coarray parallelization; a suitable GNU Fortran coarray library needs to be linked.
-fcheck=<keyword>
Enable the generation of run-time checks; the argument shall be a comma-delimited list of the
following keywords.
all Enable all run-time test of -fcheck.
array-temps
Warns at run time when for passing an actual argument a temporary array had to be generated. The
information generated by this warning is sometimes useful in optimization, in order to avoid such
temporaries.
Note: The warning is only printed once per location.
bounds
Enable generation of run-time checks for array subscripts and against the declared minimum and
maximum values. It also checks array indices for assumed and deferred shape arrays against the
actual allocated bounds and ensures that all string lengths are equal for character array
constructors without an explicit typespec.
Some checks require that -fcheck=bounds is set for the compilation of the main program.
Note: In the future this may also include other forms of checking, e.g., checking substring
references.
do Enable generation of run-time checks for invalid modification of loop iteration variables.
mem Enable generation of run-time checks for memory allocation. Note: This option does not affect
explicit allocations using the "ALLOCATE" statement, which will be always checked.
pointer
Enable generation of run-time checks for pointers and allocatables.
recursion
Enable generation of run-time checks for recursively called subroutines and functions which are
not marked as recursive. See also -frecursive. Note: This check does not work for OpenMP
programs and is disabled if used together with -frecursive and -fopenmp.
-fbounds-check
Deprecated alias for -fcheck=bounds.
-fcheck-array-temporaries
Deprecated alias for -fcheck=array-temps.
-fmax-array-constructor=n
This option can be used to increase the upper limit permitted in array constructors. The code below
requires this option to expand the array at compile time.
program test
implicit none
integer j
integer, parameter :: n = 100000
integer, parameter :: i(n) = (/ (2*j, j = 1, n) /)
print '(10(I0,1X))', i
end program test
Caution: This option can lead to long compile times and excessively large object files.
The default value for n is 65535.
-fmax-stack-var-size=n
This option specifies the size in bytes of the largest array that will be put on the stack; if the
size is exceeded static memory is used (except in procedures marked as RECURSIVE). Use the option
-frecursive to allow for recursive procedures which do not have a RECURSIVE attribute or for parallel
programs. Use -fno-automatic to never use the stack.
This option currently only affects local arrays declared with constant bounds, and may not apply to
all character variables. Future versions of GNU Fortran may improve this behavior.
The default value for n is 32768.
-fstack-arrays
Adding this option will make the Fortran compiler put all local arrays, even those of unknown size
onto stack memory. If your program uses very large local arrays it is possible that you will have to
extend your runtime limits for stack memory on some operating systems. This flag is enabled by
default at optimization level -Ofast.
-fpack-derived
This option tells GNU Fortran to pack derived type members as closely as possible. Code compiled
with this option is likely to be incompatible with code compiled without this option, and may execute
slower.
-frepack-arrays
In some circumstances GNU Fortran may pass assumed shape array sections via a descriptor describing a
noncontiguous area of memory. This option adds code to the function prologue to repack the data into
a contiguous block at runtime.
This should result in faster accesses to the array. However it can introduce significant overhead to
the function call, especially when the passed data is noncontiguous.
-fshort-enums
This option is provided for interoperability with C code that was compiled with the -fshort-enums
option. It will make GNU Fortran choose the smallest "INTEGER" kind a given enumerator set will fit
in, and give all its enumerators this kind.
-fexternal-blas
This option will make gfortran generate calls to BLAS functions for some matrix operations like
"MATMUL", instead of using our own algorithms, if the size of the matrices involved is larger than a
given limit (see -fblas-matmul-limit). This may be profitable if an optimized vendor BLAS library is
available. The BLAS library will have to be specified at link time.
-fblas-matmul-limit=n
Only significant when -fexternal-blas is in effect. Matrix multiplication of matrices with size
larger than (or equal to) n will be performed by calls to BLAS functions, while others will be
handled by gfortran internal algorithms. If the matrices involved are not square, the size comparison
is performed using the geometric mean of the dimensions of the argument and result matrices.
The default value for n is 30.
-frecursive
Allow indirect recursion by forcing all local arrays to be allocated on the stack. This flag cannot
be used together with -fmax-stack-var-size= or -fno-automatic.
-finit-local-zero
-finit-integer=n
-finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan>
-finit-logical=<true|false>
-finit-character=n
The -finit-local-zero option instructs the compiler to initialize local "INTEGER", "REAL", and
"COMPLEX" variables to zero, "LOGICAL" variables to false, and "CHARACTER" variables to a string of
null bytes. Finer-grained initialization options are provided by the -finit-integer=n,
-finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> (which also initializes the real and imaginary parts of local
"COMPLEX" variables), -finit-logical=<true|false>, and -finit-character=n (where n is an ASCII
character value) options. These options do not initialize
• allocatable arrays
• components of derived type variables
• variables that appear in an "EQUIVALENCE" statement.
(These limitations may be removed in future releases).
Note that the -finit-real=nan option initializes "REAL" and "COMPLEX" variables with a quiet NaN. For
a signalling NaN use -finit-real=snan; note, however, that compile-time optimizations may convert
them into quiet NaN and that trapping needs to be enabled (e.g. via -ffpe-trap).
Finally, note that enabling any of the -finit-* options will silence warnings that would have been
emitted by -Wuninitialized for the affected local variables.
-falign-commons
By default, gfortran enforces proper alignment of all variables in a "COMMON" block by padding them
as needed. On certain platforms this is mandatory, on others it increases performance. If a "COMMON"
block is not declared with consistent data types everywhere, this padding can cause trouble, and
-fno-align-commons can be used to disable automatic alignment. The same form of this option should be
used for all files that share a "COMMON" block. To avoid potential alignment issues in "COMMON"
blocks, it is recommended to order objects from largest to smallest.
-fno-protect-parens
By default the parentheses in expression are honored for all optimization levels such that the
compiler does not do any re-association. Using -fno-protect-parens allows the compiler to reorder
"REAL" and "COMPLEX" expressions to produce faster code. Note that for the re-association
optimization -fno-signed-zeros and -fno-trapping-math need to be in effect. The parentheses
protection is enabled by default, unless -Ofast is given.
-frealloc-lhs
An allocatable left-hand side of an intrinsic assignment is automatically (re)allocated if it is
either unallocated or has a different shape. The option is enabled by default except when -std=f95 is
given.
-faggressive-function-elimination
Functions with identical argument lists are eliminated within statements, regardless of whether these
functions are marked "PURE" or not. For example, in
a = f(b,c) + f(b,c)
there will only be a single call to "f". This option only works if -ffrontend-optimize is in effect.
-ffrontend-optimize
This option performs front-end optimization, based on manipulating parts the Fortran parse tree.
Enabled by default by any -O option. Optimizations enabled by this option include elimination of
identical function calls within expressions, removing unnecessary calls to "TRIM" in comparisons and
assignments and replacing TRIM(a) with "a(1:LEN_TRIM(a))". It can be deselected by specifying
-fno-frontend-optimize.
ENVIRONMENT
The gfortran compiler currently does not make use of any environment variables to control its operation
above and beyond those that affect the operation of gcc.
BUGS
For instructions on reporting bugs, see <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs>.
SEE ALSO
gpl(7), gfdl(7), fsf-funding(7), cpp(1), gcov(1), gcc(1), as(1), ld(1), gdb(1), adb(1), dbx(1), sdb(1)
and the Info entries for gcc, cpp, gfortran, as, ld, binutils and gdb.
AUTHOR
See the Info entry for gfortran for contributors to GCC and GNU Fortran.
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