Sun Studio 12: Fortran Programming Guide

1.8 README Files

The README pages on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) portal (http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio) describe new features, software incompatibilities, bugs, and information that was discovered after the manuals were printed. These README pages are part of the documentation on the portal for this release, and are also linked from the HTML documentation index that is part of the installed software at file:/opt/SUNWspro/docs.

Table 1–1 README Pages of Interest


README Page	Describes...
`fortran_95`	new and changed features, known limitations, documentation errata for this release of the Fortran 95 compiler, `f95`.
`fpp_readme`	overview of `fpp` features and capabilities
`interval_arithmetic`	overview of the interval arithmetic features in `f95`
`math_libraries`	optimized and specialized math libraries available.
`profiling_tools`	using the performance profiling tools, `prof`, `gprof`, and `tcov`.
`runtime_libraries`	libraries and executables that can be redistributed under the terms of the End User License.
`performance_library`	overview of the Sun Performance Library
`openmp`	new and changed features in the OpenMP parallelization API

The URL to the README page for each compiler is displayed by the -xhelp=readme command-line option. For example, the command:

% f95 -xhelp=readme

displays the URL for viewing the fortran_95 README for this release on the SDN portal.