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Fortran 2003

Features

Fortran 2003 is a significant revision of the Fortran 95 standard. Some of the major new features are

• Parametrized derived types.
• Object-oriented programming: type extension and inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic type allocation, and type-bound procedures.
• Procedure pointers.
• C interoperability.
• OS integration: command-line arguments and environment variables.
• IEEE arithmetic
• Allocatable enhancements

Compiler Compliance

See Fortran 2003 status.

gfortran

See GCC:Fortran2003 and GCC:Fortran2003Status.

Intel

See the article on support for Fortran language standards.

NAG

NAGWare f95 Compiler Release 5.2 Release Notes

See Also

• Fortran 2008

Fortran 2003 Standard

Although the official Fortran 2003 standard must be purchased from the ISO, the Draft International Standard produced by the committee is freely available. This document is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1601 (gzip compressed PDF) dated May 3, 2004 (the equivalent J3 document is 04-007).

References

• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1601 Fortran 2003 Draft International Standard.
• Reid, John (2007). The New Features of Fortran 2003. ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum 26(1), 10-33. (Also available as N1648)
• Reid, J. (2003). The future of Fortran. Computing in Science & Engineering 5, 59–67.
• Fortran 2003 extensions and the NAG Fortran Compiler
• Fortran 2003 standard: which free document gets closest? on comp.lang.fortran.