1.2 Special Conventions

In the tables and examples in this document, Fortran directives and source code are shown in uppercase, but are case-insensitive.

The term structured-block refers to a block of Fortran or C/C++ statements having no transfers into or out of the block.

Constructs within square brackets, [...], are optional.

Throughout this manual, “Fortran” refers to the Fortran 95 language and the Oracle Solaris Studio compiler, f95(1).

The terms “directive” and “pragma” are used interchangeably in this manual. OpenMP API directives are significant comments inserted by the programmer to instruct the compiler to use specialized features. As comments, they are not part of the host C, C++, or Fortran language, and may be ignored or enacted depending on compiler options.