[MPIWG Fortran] ticket 351

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Nov 9 2015, Bill Long wrote:
>
>However, you make a reasonable point.  The current standard has a sentence 
>
> "The effects of calling COMMAND_ARGUMENT_COUNT, EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE , 
> GET_COMMAND, GET_COMMAND_ARGUMENT, and GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE on any 
> image other than image 1 are processor dependent." .
>
> In discussions for the upcoming Fortran 2015 standard, people realized 
> this was a silly restriction, and all the routines except 
> EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE were removed from this sentence. Vendors already 
> were consistent that command line stuff worked on any image, so the 
> "processor dependent" bit was unnecessary.

Sort of.  They may all support it, but not all do the same thing.  We
needed to decide what to specify.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.