AMD Athlon with Intel Fortran Compiler

[Daniel Kidger]

>The Intel compilers are fast, they are just a bit quirky sometimes.
>They complain about Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 syntax unless you tell
>it not too.  It didn't like some of the code and would complain with
>internal compiler errors until I reorganized some code.  I never got
>my Fortran 90 program to run with optmization.  I don't think it
>is all F90 codes just mine had some syntax that it couldn't digest.

Our experience is they are robust and produce very fast code.

When we get 'internal compiler errors' - by deleting work.pc* and
recompiling
mostly cures the problem.

One other quirk is that using ifc to link produces large static binaries ,
but using icc uses dynamic linking. The static linking can easily be cured
(find ifc.cfg) but it is odd that the defaults are different?



Yours,
Daniel.

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