BUFFER OUT (extension)

Provided for compatibility with Cray BUFFER OUT statement.




	NOTE: Asynchronous I/O with the BUFFER OUT statements is not supported. HP Fortran 90 Draft supports these statements for synchronous I/O only.

Syntax

BUFFER OUT (unit, mode) (begin-loc, end-loc)

unit: is a unit identifier (integer expression).
mode: is ignored.
begin-loc, end-loc: are symbolic names of the variables, arrays, or array elements that mark the beginning and end locations of the BUFFER IN operation. begin-loc and end-loc must be either elements of a single array (or equivalenced to an array) or members of the same common block.

Description

The BUFFER OUT statement is an HP Fortran extension that provides compatibility with the Cray BUFFER OUT feature. The statement causes data to be transferred while allowing any subsequent statements to execute concurrently.

The BUFFER OUT statement is provided as a porting aid for existing Cray code; it typically will not produce noticeably superior performance compared to conventional Fortran 90 I/O methods. In fact, the BUFFER OUT statement will always be slightly slower than unformatted fixed record length I/O.

Other Fortran I/O statements (for example, READ, WRITE, PRINT, ACCEPT, and TYPE) cannot be used on the same unit as the BUFFER OUT statement. Mixing the standard Fortran 90 I/O operations with BUFFER OUT on the same logical unit number can confuse the input stream (READ) or corrupt the data file (WRITE).
The BACKSPACE statement cannot be used with files that are capable of being transferred by the BUFFER OUT statement. Such files are referred to as pure-data (unblocked) files.

Examples

For an example of BUFFER IN, see “BUFFER IN (extension)”.

Related statements

BUFFER IN

BUFFER OUT (extension)

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