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GFORTRAN(1)			       GNU			     GFORTRAN(1)

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 For-
     tran 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 -fallow-argument-mismatch -fallow-invalid-boz -fback-
	 slash -fcray-pointer -fd-lines-as-code -fd-lines-as-comments -fdec
	 -fdec-char-conversions -fdec-structure -fdec-intrinsic-ints -fdec-sta-
	 tic -fdec-math -fdec-include -fdec-format-defaults -fdec-blank-for-
	 mat-item -fdefault-double-8 -fdefault-integer-8 -fdefault-real-8 -fde-
	 fault-real-10 -fdefault-real-16 -fdollar-ok -ffixed-line-length-n
	 -ffixed-line-length-none -fpad-source -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-n
	 -ffree-line-length-none -fimplicit-none -finteger-4-integer-8
	 -fmax-identifier-length -fmodule-private -ffixed-form -fno-range-check
	 -fopenacc -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
	 -ftest-forall-temp

     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 -un-
	 def

     Error and Warning Options
	 -Waliasing -Wall -Wampersand -Warray-bounds -Wc-binding-type -Wcharac-
	 ter-truncation -Wconversion -Wdo-subscript -Wfunction-elimination -Wim-
	 plicit-interface -Wimplicit-procedure -Wintrinsic-shadow -Wuse-with-
	 out-only -Wintrinsics-std -Wline-truncation -Wno-align-commons
	 -Wno-overwrite-recursive -Wno-tabs -Wreal-q-constant -Wsurprising -Wun-
	 derflow -Wunused-parameter -Wrealloc-lhs -Wrealloc-lhs-all -Wfron-
	 tend-loop-interchange -Wtarget-lifetime -fmax-errors=n -fsyntax-only
	 -pedantic -pedantic-errors

     Debugging Options
	 -fbacktrace -fdump-fortran-optimized -fdump-fortran-original -fde-
	 bug-aux-vars -fdump-fortran-global -fdump-parse-tree -ffpe-trap=list
	 -ffpe-summary=list

     Directory Options
	 -Idir	-Jdir -fintrinsic-modules-path dir

     Link Options
	 -static-libgfortran

     Runtime Options
	 -fconvert=conversion -fmax-subrecord-length=length
	 -frecord-marker=length -fsign-zero

     Interoperability Options
	 -fc-prototypes -fc-prototypes-external

     Code Generation Options
	 -faggressive-function-elimination -fblas-matmul-limit=n -fbounds-check
	 -ftail-call-workaround -ftail-call-workaround=n -fcheck-array-tempo-
	 raries -fcheck=<all|array-temps|bits|bounds|do|mem|pointer|recursion>
	 -fcoarray=<none|single|lib> -fexternal-blas -ff2c -ffrontend-loop-in-
	 terchange -ffrontend-optimize -finit-character=n -finit-integer=n
	 -finit-local-zero -finit-derived -finit-logical=<true|false>
	 -finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> -finline-matmul-limit=n -fin-
	 line-arg-packing -fmax-array-constructor=n -fmax-stack-var-size=n
	 -fno-align-commons -fno-automatic -fno-protect-parens -fno-underscoring
	 -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= 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 intrin-
	 sic will be called except when it is explicitly declared "EXTERNAL".

     -fallow-argument-mismatch
	 Some code contains calls to external procedures with mismatches between
	 the calls and the procedure definition, or with mismatches between dif-
	 ferent calls. Such code is non-conforming, and will usually be flagged
	 with an error.  This options degrades the error to a warning, which can
	 only be disabled by disabling all warnings via -w.  Only a single oc-
	 currence per argument is flagged by this warning.  -fallow-argu-
	 ment-mismatch is implied by -std=legacy.

	 Using this option is strongly discouraged.  It is possible to provide
	 standard-conforming code which allows different types of arguments by
	 using an explicit interface and TYPE(*).

     -fallow-invalid-boz
	 A BOZ literal constant can occur in a limited number of contexts in
	 standard conforming Fortran.  This option degrades an error condition
	 to a warning, and allows a BOZ literal constant to appear where the
	 Fortran standard would otherwise prohibit its use.

     -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.

     -fdec
	 DEC compatibility mode. Enables extensions and other features that
	 mimic the default behavior of older compilers (such as DEC).  These
	 features are non-standard and should be avoided at all costs.	For de-
	 tails on GNU Fortran's implementation of these extensions see the full
	 documentation.

	 Other flags enabled by this switch are: -fdollar-ok -fcray-pointer
	 -fdec-char-conversions -fdec-structure -fdec-intrinsic-ints -fdec-sta-
	 tic -fdec-math -fdec-include -fdec-blank-format-item -fdec-format-de-
	 faults

	 If -fd-lines-as-code/-fd-lines-as-comments are unset, then -fdec also
	 sets -fd-lines-as-comments.

     -fdec-char-conversions
	 Enable the use of character literals in assignments and "DATA" state-
	 ments for non-character variables.

     -fdec-structure
	 Enable DEC "STRUCTURE" and "RECORD" as well as "UNION", "MAP", and dot
	 ('.') as a member separator (in addition to '%'). This is provided for
	 compatibility only; Fortran 90 derived types should be used instead
	 where possible.

     -fdec-intrinsic-ints
	 Enable B/I/J/K kind variants of existing integer functions (e.g. BIAND,
	 IIAND, JIAND, etc...). For a complete list of intrinsics see the full
	 documentation.

     -fdec-math
	 Enable legacy math intrinsics such as COTAN and degree-valued trigono-
	 metric functions (e.g. TAND, ATAND, etc...) for compatability with
	 older code.

     -fdec-static
	 Enable DEC-style STATIC and AUTOMATIC attributes to explicitly specify
	 the storage of variables and other objects.

     -fdec-include
	 Enable parsing of INCLUDE as a statement in addition to parsing it as
	 INCLUDE line.	When parsed as INCLUDE statement, INCLUDE does not have
	 to be on a single line and can use line continuations.

     -fdec-format-defaults
	 Enable format specifiers F, G and I to be used without width speci-
	 fiers, default widths will be used instead.

     -fdec-blank-format-item
	 Enable a blank format item at the end of a format specification i.e.
	 nothing following the final comma.

     -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 sin-
	 gle 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 combi-
	 nations of a character preceded by \ are unexpanded.

     -fmodule-private
	 Set the default accessibility of module entities to "PRIVATE".  Use-as-
	 sociated entities will not be accessible unless they are explicitly de-
	 clared as "PUBLIC".

     -ffixed-line-length-n
	 Set column after which characters are ignored in typical fixed-form
	 lines in the source file, and, unless "-fno-pad-source", 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.

     -fno-pad-source
	 By default fixed-form lines have spaces assumed (as if padded to that
	 length) after the ends of short fixed-form lines.  This is not done ei-
	 ther if -ffixed-line-length-0, -ffixed-line-length-none or if
	 -fno-pad-source option is used.  With any of those options continued
	 character constants never have implicit spaces appended to them to fill
	 out the line.

     -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 later).

     -fimplicit-none
	 Specify that no implicit typing is allowed, unless overridden by ex-
	 plicit "IMPLICIT" statements.	This is the equivalent of adding "im-
	 plicit none" to the start of every procedure.

     -fcray-pointer
	 Enable the Cray pointer extension, which provides C-like pointer func-
	 tionality.

     -fopenacc
	 Enable the OpenACC extensions.  This includes OpenACC "!$acc" direc-
	 tives in free form and "c$acc", *$acc and "!$acc" directives in fixed
	 form, "!$" conditional compilation sentinels in free form and "c$",
	 "*$" and "!$" sentinels in fixed form, and when linking arranges for
	 the OpenACC runtime library to be linked in.

     -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 -frecur-
	 sive.

     -fno-range-check
	 Disable range checking on results of simplification of constant expres-
	 sions 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.

     -fdefault-integer-8
	 Set the default integer and logical types to an 8 byte wide type.  This
	 option also affects the kind of integer constants like 42. Unlike -fin-
	 teger-4-integer-8, it does not promote variables with explicit kind de-
	 claration.

     -fdefault-real-8
	 Set the default real type to an 8 byte wide type.  This option also af-
	 fects the kind of non-double real constants like 1.0.	This option pro-
	 motes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real constants
	 like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible.  If "-fdefault-double-8" is given
	 along with "fdefault-real-8", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real con-
	 stants are not promoted.  Unlike -freal-4-real-8, "fdefault-real-8"
	 does not promote variables with explicit kind declarations.

     -fdefault-real-10
	 Set the default real type to an 10 byte wide type.  This option also
	 affects the kind of non-double real constants like 1.0.  This option
	 promotes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real con-
	 stants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible.  If "-fdefault-double-8" is
	 given along with "fdefault-real-10", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real
	 constants are not promoted.  Unlike -freal-4-real-10, "fde-
	 fault-real-10" does not promote variables with explicit kind declara-
	 tions.

     -fdefault-real-16
	 Set the default real type to an 16 byte wide type.  This option also
	 affects the kind of non-double real constants like 1.0.  This option
	 promotes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real con-
	 stants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible.  If "-fdefault-double-8" is
	 given along with "fdefault-real-16", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real
	 constants are not promoted.  Unlike -freal-4-real-16, "fde-
	 fault-real-16" does not promote variables with explicit kind declara-
	 tions.

     -fdefault-double-8
	 Set the "DOUBLE PRECISION" type and double real constants like "1.d0"
	 to an 8 byte wide type.  Do nothing if this is already the default.
	 This option prevents -fdefault-real-8, -fdefault-real-10, and -fde-
	 fault-real-16, from promoting "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real con-
	 stants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes.

     -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 sug-
	 gested.

     -freal-4-real-8
     -freal-4-real-10
     -freal-4-real-16
     -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.  The
	 "-freal-4-" flags also affect the default real kind and the "-freal-8-"
	 flags also the double-precision real kind.  All other real-kind types
	 are unaffected by this option.  The promotion is also applied to real
	 literal constants of default and double-precision kind and a specified
	 kind number of 4 or 8, respectively.  However, "-fdefault-real-8",
	 "-fdefault-real-10", "-fdefault-real-10", and "-fdefault-double-8" take
	 precedence for the default and double-precision real kinds, both for
	 real literal constants and for declarations without a kind number.
	 Note that for "REAL(KIND=KIND(1.0))" the literal may get promoted and
	 then the result may get promoted again.  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 "EQUIVA-
	 LENCE" and/or "COMMON", generic interfaces, BOZ literal constant con-
	 version, and I/O and calls to intrinsic procedures when passing a value
	 to the "kind=" dummy argument.  Inspection of the intermediate repre-
	 sentation of the translated Fortran code, produced by -fdump-for-
	 tran-original or -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, f2018, gnu, or legacy.  The default
	 value for std is gnu, which specifies a superset of the latest Fortran
	 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-stan-
	 dard programs.  The f95, f2003, f2008, and f2018 values specify strict
	 conformance to the Fortran 95, Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008 and Fortran
	 2018 standards, respectively; errors are given for all extensions be-
	 yond the relevant language standard, and warnings are given for the
	 Fortran 77 features that are permitted but obsolescent in later stan-
	 dards. The deprecated option -std=f2008ts acts as an alias for
	 -std=f2018. It is only present for backwards compatibility with earlier
	 gfortran versions and should not be used any more.

     -ftest-forall-temp
	 Enhance test coverage by forcing most forall assignments to use tempo-
	 rary.

   Enable and customize preprocessing
     Many Fortran compilers including GNU Fortran allow passing the source code
     through a C preprocessor (CPP; sometimes also called the Fortran preproces-
     sor, FPP) to allow for conditional compilation.  In the case of GNU For-
     tran, this is the GNU C Preprocessor in the traditional mode.  On systems
     with case-preserving file names, the preprocessor is automatically invoked
     if the filename extension is .F, .FOR, .FTN, .fpp, .FPP, .F90, .F95, .F03
     or .F08.  To manually invoke the preprocessor on any file, use -cpp, to
     disable preprocessing on files where the preprocessor is run automatically,
     use -nocpp.

     If a preprocessed file includes another file with the Fortran "INCLUDE"
     statement, the included file is not preprocessed.	To preprocess included
     files, use the equivalent preprocessor statement "#include".

     If GNU Fortran invokes the preprocessor, "__GFORTRAN__" is defined.  The
     macros "__GNUC__", "__GNUC_MINOR__" and "__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__" can be used
     to determine the version of the compiler.	See Top,,Overview,cpp,The C Pre-
     processor for details.

     GNU Fortran supports a number of "INTEGER" and "REAL" kind types in addi-
     tional to the kind types required by the Fortran standard.  The availabil-
     ity of any given kind type is architecture dependent.  The following
     pre-defined preprocessor macros can be used to conditionally include code
     for these additional kind types: "__GFC_INT_1__", "__GFC_INT_2__",
     "__GFC_INT_8__", "__GFC_INT_16__", "__GFC_REAL_10__", and
     "__GFC_REAL_16__".

     While CPP is the de-facto standard for preprocessing Fortran code, Part 3
     of the Fortran 95 standard (ISO/IEC 1539-3:1998) defines Conditional Compi-
     lation, which is not widely used and not directly supported by the GNU For-
     tran compiler.  You can use the program coco to preprocess such files
     (<http://www.daniellnagle.com/coco.html>).

     The following options control preprocessing of Fortran code:

     -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 exten-
	 sions, 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 pre-
	 processed 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 preprocess-
	 ing.

     -fworking-directory
	 Enable generation of linemarkers in the preprocessor output that will
	 let the compiler know the current working directory at the time of pre-
	 processing. 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 ef-
	 fect, 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 speci-
	 fied 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 stan-
	 dard 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 stan-
	 dard 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 exam-
	 ple, 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 com-
	 ments. This is to prevent later use of that macro from inadvertently
	 commenting out the remainder of the source line. The -CC option is gen-
	 erally 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 ap-
	 peared during translation phase three in a '#define' directive.  In
	 particular, the definition will be truncated by embedded newline char-
	 acters.

	 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 com-
	 mand 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 con-
     tinue 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 com-
     pilation of the program.

     You can request many specific warnings with options beginning -W, for exam-
     ple -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 mes-
	 sages 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.

     -Wpedantic
     -pedantic
	 Issue warnings for uses of extensions to Fortran.  -pedantic also ap-
	 plies 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 programs should compile properly with or without this op-
	 tion.	However, without this option, certain GNU extensions and tradi-
	 tional 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 For-
	 tran in this area are welcome.

	 This should be used in conjunction with -std=f95, -std=f2003,
	 -std=f2008 or -std=f2018.

     -pedantic-errors
	 Like -pedantic, except that errors are produced rather than warnings.

     -Wall
	 Enables commonly used warning options pertaining to usage that we rec-
	 ommend avoiding and that we believe are easy to avoid.  This currently
	 includes -Waliasing, -Wampersand, -Wconversion, -Wsurprising, -Wc-bind-
	 ing-type, -Wintrinsics-std, -Wtabs, -Wintrinsic-shadow, -Wline-trunca-
	 tion, -Wtarget-lifetime, -Winteger-division, -Wreal-q-constant,
	 -Wunused and -Wundefined-do-loop.

     -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 ex-
	 plicit 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,
	 -std=f2008 and -std=f2018. 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 initi-
	 ated the continuation.

     -Warray-temporaries
	 Warn about array temporaries generated by the compiler.  The informa-
	 tion generated by this warning is sometimes useful in optimization, in
	 order to avoid such temporaries.

     -Wc-binding-type
	 Warn if the a variable might not be C interoperable.  In particular,
	 warn if the variable has been declared using an intrinsic type with de-
	 fault kind instead of using a kind parameter defined for C interoper-
	 ability in the intrinsic "ISO_C_Binding" module.  This option is im-
	 plied by -Wall.

     -Wcharacter-truncation
	 Warn when a character assignment will truncate the assigned string.

     -Wline-truncation
	 Warn when a source code line will be truncated.  This option is implied
	 by -Wall.  For free-form source code, the default is -Werror=line-trun-
	 cation such that truncations are reported as error.

     -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. This
	 option does not imply -Wconversion.

     -Wextra
	 Enables some warning options for usages of language features which may
	 be problematic. This currently includes -Wcompare-reals, -Wunused-para-
	 meter and -Wdo-subscript.

     -Wfrontend-loop-interchange
	 Warn when using -ffrontend-loop-interchange for performing loop inter-
	 changes.

     -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".

     -Winteger-division
	 Warn if a constant integer division truncates its result.  As an exam-
	 ple, 3/5 evaluates to 0.

     -Wintrinsics-std
	 Warn if gfortran finds a procedure named like an intrinsic not avail-
	 able 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.

     -Wno-overwrite-recursive
	 Do not warn when -fno-automatic is used with -frecursive. Recursion
	 will be broken if the relevant local variables do not have the at-
	 tribute "AUTOMATIC" explicitly declared. This option can be used to
	 suppress the warning when it is known that recursion is not broken.
	 Useful for build environments that use -Werror.

     -Wreal-q-constant
	 Produce a warning if a real-literal-constant contains a "q" expo-
	 nent-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.  -Wtabs will cause a warning
	 to be issued if a tab is encountered. Note, -Wtabs is active for
	 -pedantic, -std=f95, -std=f2003, -std=f2008, -std=f2018 and -Wall.

     -Wundefined-do-loop
	 Warn if a DO loop with step either 1 or -1 yields an underflow or an
	 overflow during iteration of an induction variable of the loop.  This
	 option is implied by -Wall.

     -Wunderflow
	 Produce a warning when numerical constant expressions are encountered,
	 which yield an UNDERFLOW during compilation. Enabled by default.

     -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.  This option is implied by -Wall.

     -Wuse-without-only
	 Warn if a "USE" statement has no "ONLY" qualifier and thus implicitly
	 imports all public entities of the used module.

     -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 implementa-
	 tion of this option does not warn about unused dummy arguments (see
	 -Wunused-dummy-argument), but about unused "PARAMETER" values.
	 -Wunused-parameter is implied by -Wextra if also -Wunused or -Wall is
	 used.

     -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 impure functions are eliminated by the optimiza-
	 tions enabled by the -ffrontend-optimize option.  This option is im-
	 plied by -Wextra.

     -Wrealloc-lhs
	 Warn when the compiler might insert code to for allocation or realloca-
	 tion of an allocatable array variable of intrinsic type in intrinsic
	 assignments.  In hot loops, the Fortran 2003 reallocation feature may
	 reduce the performance.  If the array is already allocated with the
	 correct shape, consider using a whole-array array-spec (e.g. "(:,:,:)")
	 for the variable on the left-hand side to prevent the reallocation
	 check. Note that in some cases the warning is shown, even if the com-
	 piler will optimize reallocation checks away.	For instance, when the
	 right-hand side contains the same variable multiplied by a scalar.  See
	 also -frealloc-lhs.

     -Wrealloc-lhs-all
	 Warn when the compiler inserts code to for allocation or reallocation
	 of an allocatable variable; this includes scalars and derived types.

     -Wcompare-reals
	 Warn when comparing real or complex types for equality or inequality.
	 This option is implied by -Wextra.

     -Wtarget-lifetime
	 Warn if the pointer in a pointer assignment might be longer than the
	 its target. This option is implied by -Wall.

     -Wzerotrip
	 Warn if a "DO" loop is known to execute zero times at compile time.
	 This option is implied by -Wall.

     -Wdo-subscript
	 Warn if an array subscript inside a DO loop could lead to an
	 out-of-bounds access even if the compiler cannot prove that the state-
	 ment is actually executed, in cases like

		   real a(3)
		   do i=1,4
		     if (condition(i)) then
		       a(i) = 1.2
		     end if
		   end do

	 This option is implied by -Wextra.

     -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.	This option is mostly useful for debug-
	 ging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. The output generated by this op-
	 tion might change between releases. This option may also generate in-
	 ternal compiler errors for features which have only recently been
	 added.

     -fdump-fortran-optimized
	 Output the parse tree after front-end optimization.  Mostly useful for
	 debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. The output generated by this
	 option might change between releases.	This option may also generate
	 internal compiler errors for features which have only recently been
	 added.

     -fdump-parse-tree
	 Output the internal parse tree after translating the source program
	 into internal representation.	Mostly useful for debugging the GNU For-
	 tran compiler itself. The output generated by this option might change
	 between releases. This option may also generate internal compiler er-
	 rors for features which have only recently been added. This option is
	 deprecated; use "-fdump-fortran-original" instead.

     -fdebug-aux-vars
	 Renames internal variables created by the gfortran front end and makes
	 them accessible to a debugger.  The name of the internal variables then
	 start with upper-case letters followed by an underscore.  This option
	 is useful for debugging the compiler's code generation together with
	 "-fdump-tree-original" and enabling debugging of the executable program
	 by using "-g" or "-ggdb3".

     -fdump-fortran-global
	 Output a list of the global identifiers after translating into mid-
	 dle-end representation. Mostly useful for debugging the GNU Fortran
	 compiler itself. The output generated by this option might change be-
	 tween releases.  This option may also generate internal compiler errors
	 for features which have only recently been added.

     -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 ex-
	 ception is enabled, a SIGFPE signal will be sent and the program being
	 aborted, producing a core file useful for debugging.  list is a (possi-
	 bly 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 ex-
	 ceptions, 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.

	 If the option is used more than once in the command line, the lists
	 will be joined: '"ffpe-trap="list1 "ffpe-trap="list2' is equivalent to
	 "ffpe-trap="list1,list2.

	 Note that once enabled an exception cannot be disabled (no negative
	 form).

	 Many, if not most, floating point operations incur loss of precision
	 due to rounding, and hence the "ffpe-trap=inexact" is likely to be un-
	 interesting in practice.

	 By default no exception traps are enabled.

     -ffpe-summary=list
	 Specify a list of floating-point exceptions, whose flag status is
	 printed to "ERROR_UNIT" when invoking "STOP" and "ERROR STOP".  list
	 can be either none, all or a comma-separated list of the following ex-
	 ceptions: invalid, zero, overflow, underflow, inexact and denormal.
	 (See -ffpe-trap for a description of the exceptions.)

	 If the option is used more than once in the command line, only the last
	 one will be used.

	 By default, a summary for all exceptions but inexact is shown.

     -fno-backtrace
	 When a serious runtime error is encountered or a deadly signal is emit-
	 ted (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 For-
     tran 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 com-
	 piled 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" state-
	 ment.

	 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 on most systems are: native, the default; swap, swap be-
	 tween big- and little-endian; big-endian, use big-endian representation
	 for unformatted files; little-endian, use little-endian representation
	 for unformatted files.

	 On POWER systems which suppport -mabi=ieeelongdouble, there are addi-
	 tional options, which can be combined with others with commas.  Those
	 are

	 @w<-fconvert=r16_ieee Use IEEE 128-bit format for>
	     REAL(KIND=16).

	 @w<-fconvert=r16_ibm Use IBM long double format for>
	     REAL(KIND=16).

	 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.

     -frecord-marker=length
	 Specify the length of record markers for unformatted files.  Valid val-
	 ues for length are 4 and 8.  Default is 4.  This is different from pre-
	 vious versions of gfortran, which specified a default record marker
	 length of 8 on most systems.  If you want to read or write files com-
	 patible 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 compatibil-
	 ity 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 ref-
	 erenced 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.

	 Local variables or arrays having an explicit "SAVE" attribute are
	 silently ignored unless the -pedantic option is added.

     -ff2c
	 Generate code designed to be compatible with code generated by g77 and
	 f2c.

	 The calling conventions used by g77 (originally implemented in f2c) re-
	 quire 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 conven-
	 tions, 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 imple-
	 mentations 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 compatibil-
	 ity 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 experiment-
	 ing 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 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, get-
	 ting 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 dis-
	 agreements in these other areas.

	 Also, note that with -fno-underscoring, the lack of appended under-
	 scores introduces the very real possibility that a user-defined exter-
	 nal 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 inter-
	 faces.

     -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 under-
	 scores to avoid naming collisions with external names.

	 This option has no effect if -fno-underscoring is in effect.  It is im-
	 plied 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 compati-
	 bility with g77 and f2c, and is implied by use of the -ff2c option.

     -fcoarray=<keyword>
	 noneDisable coarray support; using coarray declarations and image-con-
	     trol 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 coar-
	     ray 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.  Prefixing a check with
	 no- disables it if it was activated by a previous specification.

	 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 warn-
	     ing is sometimes useful in optimization, in order to avoid such
	     temporaries.

	     Note: The warning is only printed once per location.

	 bitsEnable generation of run-time checks for invalid arguments to the
	     bit manipulation intrinsics.

	 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 ac-
	     tual 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 "ALLO-
	     CATE" 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 subrou-
	     tines 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.

	 Example: Assuming you have a file foo.f90, the command

		   gfortran -fcheck=all,no-array-temps foo.f90

	 will compile the file with all checks enabled as specified above except
	 warnings for generated array temporaries.

     -fbounds-check
	 Deprecated alias for -fcheck=bounds.

     -ftail-call-workaround
     -ftail-call-workaround=n
	 Some C interfaces to Fortran codes violate the gfortran ABI by omitting
	 the hidden character length arguments as described in
	   This can lead to crashes because pushing arguments for tail calls can
	 overflow the stack.

	 To provide a workaround for existing binary packages, this option dis-
	 ables tail call optimization for gfortran procedures with character ar-
	 guments.  With -ftail-call-workaround=2 tail call optimization is dis-
	 abled in all gfortran procedures with character arguments, with
	 -ftail-call-workaround=1 or equivalent -ftail-call-workaround only in
	 gfortran procedures with character arguments that call implicitly pro-
	 totyped procedures.

	 Using this option can lead to problems including crashes due to insuf-
	 ficient stack space.

	 It is very strongly recommended to fix the code in question.  The
	 -fc-prototypes-external option can be used to generate prototypes which
	 conform to gfortran's ABI, for inclusion in the source code.

	 Support for this option will likely be withdrawn in a future release of
	 gfortran.

	 The negative form, -fno-tail-call-workaround or equivalent
	 -ftail-call-workaround=0, can be used to disable this option.

	 Default is currently -ftail-call-workaround, this will change in future
	 releases.

     -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 (ex-
	 cept 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 65536.

     -fstack-arrays
	 Adding this option will make the Fortran compiler put all arrays of un-
	 known size and array temporaries onto stack memory.  If your program
	 uses very large local arrays it is possible that you will have to ex-
	 tend your runtime limits for stack memory on some operating systems.
	 This flag is enabled by default at optimization level -Ofast unless
	 -fmax-stack-var-size is specified.

     -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 incompati-
	 ble 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 op-
	 tion adds code to the function prologue to repack the data into a con-
	 tiguous block at runtime.

	 This should result in faster accesses to the array.  However it can in-
	 troduce 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 com-
	 piled 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.

     -finline-arg-packing
	 When passing an assumed-shape argument of a procedure as actual argu-
	 ment to an assumed-size or explicit size or as argument to a procedure
	 that does not have an explicit interface, the argument may have to be
	 packed, that is put into contiguous memory. An example is the call to
	 "foo" in

		   subroutine foo(a)
		      real, dimension(*) :: a
		   end subroutine foo
		   subroutine bar(b)
		      real, dimension(:) :: b
		      call foo(b)
		   end subroutine bar

	 When -finline-arg-packing is in effect, this packing will be performed
	 by inline code. This allows for more optimization while increasing code
	 size.

	 -finline-arg-packing is implied by any of the -O options except when
	 optimizing for size via -Os.  If the code contains a very large number
	 of argument that have to be packed, code size and also compilation time
	 may become excessive.	If that is the case, it may be better to disable
	 this option.  Instances of packing can be found by using -Warray-tempo-
	 raries.

     -fexternal-blas
	 This option will make gfortran generate calls to BLAS functions for
	 some matrix operations like "MATMUL", instead of using our own algo-
	 rithms, if the size of the matrices involved is larger than a given
	 limit (see -fblas-matmul-limit).  This may be profitable if an opti-
	 mized 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 multiplica-
	 tion of matrices with size larger than (or equal to) n will be per-
	 formed 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 dimen-
	 sions of the argument and result matrices.

	 The default value for n is 30.

     -finline-matmul-limit=n
	 When front-end optimization is active, some calls to the "MATMUL" in-
	 trinsic function will be inlined.  This may result in code size in-
	 crease if the size of the matrix cannot be determined at compile time,
	 as code for both cases is generated.  Setting "-finline-matmul-limit=0"
	 will disable inlining in all cases.  Setting this option with a value
	 of n will produce inline code for matrices with size up to n. If the
	 matrices involved are not square, the size comparison is performed us-
	 ing the geometric mean of the dimensions of the argument and result ma-
	 trices.

	 The default value for n is 30.  The "-fblas-matmul-limit" can be used
	 to change this value.

     -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-derived
     -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-inte-
	 ger=n, -finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> (which also initializes the
	 real and imaginary parts of local "COMPLEX" variables), -finit-logi-
	 cal=<true|false>, and -finit-character=n (where n is an ASCII character
	 value) options.

	 With -finit-derived, components of derived type variables will be ini-
	 tialized according to these flags.  Components whose type is not cov-
	 ered by an explicit -finit-* flag will be treated as described above
	 with -finit-local-zero.

	 These options do not initialize

	 *   objects with the POINTER attribute

	 *   allocatable arrays

	 *   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).

	 The -finit-integer option will parse the value into an integer of type
	 INTEGER(kind=C_LONG) on the host.  Said value is then assigned to the
	 integer variables in the Fortran code, which might result in wraparound
	 if the value is too large for the kind.

	 Finally, note that enabling any of the -finit-* options will silence
	 warnings that would have been emitted by -Wuninitialized for the af-
	 fected 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 optimiza-
	 tion levels such that the compiler does not do any re-association. Us-
	 ing -fno-protect-parens allows the compiler to reorder "REAL" and "COM-
	 PLEX" expressions to produce faster code. Note that for the re-associa-
	 tion 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 automati-
	 cally (re)allocated if it is either unallocated or has a different
	 shape. The option is enabled by default except when -std=f95 is given.
	 See also -Wrealloc-lhs.

     -faggressive-function-elimination
	 Functions with identical argument lists are eliminated within state-
	 ments, 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 ex-
	 cept -O0 and -Og.  Optimizations enabled by this option include:

	 *<inlining calls to "MATMUL",>
	 *<elimination of identical function calls within expressions,>
	 *<removing unnecessary calls to "TRIM" in comparisons and assignments,>
	 *<replacing TRIM(a) with "a(1:LEN_TRIM(a))" and>
	 *<short-circuiting of logical operators (".AND." and ".OR.").>

	 It can be deselected by specifying -fno-frontend-optimize.

     -ffrontend-loop-interchange
	 Attempt to interchange loops in the Fortran front end where profitable.
	 Enabled by default by any -O option.  At the moment, this option only
	 affects "FORALL" and "DO CONCURRENT" statements with several forall
	 triplets.

ENVIRONMENT
     The gfortran compiler currently does not make use of any environment vari-
     ables to control its operation above and beyond those that affect the oper-
     ation of gcc.

BUGS
     For instructions on reporting bugs, see <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/>.

SEE ALSO
     gpl(7), gfdl(7), fsf-funding(7), cpp(1), gcov(1), gcc(1), as(1), ld(1),
     gdb(1), dbx(1) and the Info entries for gcc, cpp, gfortran, as, ld, binu-
     tils and gdb.

AUTHOR
     See the Info entry for gfortran for contributors to GCC and GNU Fortran.

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