You can view very brief descriptions of the f77 and f90 command line options by invoking the compiler's -help option as shown below:
%f77 -help -or- f90 -help _______________________________________________________________ Items within [ ] are optional. Items within < > are variable parameters.Bar | indicates choice of literal values. For example: -someoption[=<yes|no>] implies -someoption is -someoption=yes _______________________________________________________________ -a: Collect data for tcov basic block profiling (old format) -ansi: Report non-ANSI extensions. -arg=local: Preserve actual arguments over ENTRY statements -autopar: Enable automatic loop parallelization (requires WorkShop license) -Bdynamic: Allow dynamic linking -Bstatic: Require static linking -c: Compile only - produce .o files, suppress linking -C: Enable runtime subscript range checking -cg89: Generate code for generic SPARC V7 architecture -cg92: Generate code for SPARC V8 architecture -copyargs: Allow assignment to constant arguments ...etc.