This Appendix lists the new and changed features in this release and recent releases of the Fortran compiler.
The Oracle Developer Studio Fortran 95 compiler version 8.8 is a component of the Oracle Developer Studio 12.5 release.
Support for SPARC M6, M7, and T7 processors.
Support for the Intel Broadwell/avx2_i processor.
Default compilation mode is –m64 on both Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux.
Support for x86 dataspace profiling.
The maximum length of a free source form line has been increased from 132 to 250 characters.
New compiler options:
–features=[no%]mergestrings causes the compiler to put string literals and other suitable const or read-only data into a special section of the binary where the linker removes duplicate strings. This option is available only on SPARC.
–xsecure_code_analysis enables compiler secure code analysis to find and display possible memory safety violations at compile time.