[MPI3 Fortran] (j3.2006) Effect of volatile

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Dec 23 2008, Michael Ingrassia wrote:
>
>Since Fortran hasn't had END BLOCK statements until now I guess there's
>no way to survey whether all vendors flush registers and set up barriers
>to code motion at an END BLOCK.
>
>>While this might work as a 
>>practical matter, I don't think the language semantics requires that.  
>
>Could the semantics require that, in principle ?    

Not without major changes to the specification model, no.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
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