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NAME
gfortran - GNU Fortran compiler
SYNOPSIS
gfortran [-c|-S|-E]
[-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
[-Wwarn...] [-pedantic]
[-Idir...] [-Ldir...]
[-Dmacro[=defn]...] [-Umacro]
[-foption...]
[-mmachine-option...]
[-o outfile] infile...
Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for the remainder.
DESCRIPTION
The gfortran command supports all the options supported by the gcc command. Only options specific to GNU
Fortran are documented here.
All GCC and GNU Fortran options are accepted both by gfortran and by gcc (as well as any other drivers
built at the same time, such as g++), since adding GNU Fortran to the GCC distribution enables acceptance
of GNU Fortran options by all of the relevant drivers.
In some cases, options have positive and negative forms; the negative form of -ffoo would be -fno-foo.
This manual documents only one of these two forms, whichever one is not the default.
OPTIONS
Here is a summary of all the options specific to GNU Fortran, grouped by type. Explanations are in the
following sections.
Fortran Language Options
-fall-intrinsics -fallow-argument-mismatch -fallow-invalid-boz -fbackslash -fcray-pointer
-fd-lines-as-code -fd-lines-as-comments -fdec -fdec-char-conversions -fdec-structure
-fdec-intrinsic-ints -fdec-static -fdec-math -fdec-include -fdec-format-defaults
-fdec-blank-format-item -fdefault-double-8 -fdefault-integer-8 -fdefault-real-8 -fdefault-real-10
-fdefault-real-16 -fdollar-ok -ffixed-line-length-n -ffixed-line-length-none -fpad-source -ffree-form
-ffree-line-length-n -ffree-line-length-none -fimplicit-none -finteger-4-integer-8
-fmax-identifier-length -fmodule-private -ffixed-form -fno-range-check -fopenacc -fopenmp
-fopenmp-allocators -fopenmp-simd -freal-4-real-10 -freal-4-real-16 -freal-4-real-8 -freal-8-real-10
-freal-8-real-16 -freal-8-real-4 -std=std -ftest-forall-temp -funsigned
Preprocessing Options
-A-question[=answer] -Aquestion=answer -C -CC -Dmacro[=defn] -H -P -Umacro -cpp -dD -dI -dM -dN -dU
-fworking-directory -imultilib dir -iprefix file -iquote -isysroot dir -isystem dir -nocpp -nostdinc
-undef
Error and Warning Options
-Waliasing -Wall -Wampersand -Warray-bounds -Wc-binding-type -Wcharacter-truncation -Wconversion
-Wdo-subscript -Wfunction-elimination -Wimplicit-interface -Wimplicit-procedure -Wintrinsic-shadow
-Wuse-without-only -Wintrinsics-std -Wline-truncation -Wno-align-commons -Wno-overwrite-recursive
-Wno-tabs -Wreal-q-constant -Wsurprising -Wunderflow -Wunused-parameter -Wrealloc-lhs
-Wrealloc-lhs-all -Wfrontend-loop-interchange -Wtarget-lifetime -fmax-errors=n -fsyntax-only
-pedantic -pedantic-errors
Debugging Options
-fbacktrace -fdebug-aux-vars -ffpe-trap=list -ffpe-summary=list
Directory Options
-Idir -Jdir -fintrinsic-modules-path dir
Link Options
-static-libgfortran -static-libquadmath
Runtime Options
-fconvert=conversion -fmax-subrecord-length=length -frecord-marker=length -fsign-zero
Interoperability Options
-fc-prototypes -fc-prototypes-external
Code Generation Options
-faggressive-function-elimination -fblas-matmul-limit=n -fbounds-check -ftail-call-workaround
-ftail-call-workaround=n -fcheck-array-temporaries
-fcheck=<all|array-temps|bits|bounds|do|mem|pointer|recursion> -fcoarray=<none|single|lib>
-fexternal-blas -ff2c -ffrontend-loop-interchange -ffrontend-optimize -finit-character=n
-finit-integer=n -finit-local-zero -finit-derived -finit-logical=<true|false>
-finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> -finline-intrinsics[=<minloc,maxloc>] -finline-matmul-limit=n
-finline-arg-packing -fmax-array-constructor=n -fmax-stack-var-size=n -fno-align-commons
-fno-automatic -fno-protect-parens -fno-underscoring -fsecond-underscore -fpack-derived -frealloc-lhs
-frecursive -frepack-arrays -fshort-enums -fstack-arrays
Developer Options
-fdump-fortran-global -fdump-fortran-optimized -fdump-fortran-original -fdump-parse-tree -save-temps
Options controlling Fortran dialect
The following options control the details of the Fortran dialect accepted by the compiler:
-ffree-form
-ffixed-form
Specify the layout used by the source file. The free form layout was introduced in Fortran 90.
Fixed form was traditionally used in older Fortran programs. When neither option is specified, the
source form is determined by the file extension.
-fall-intrinsics
This option causes all intrinsic procedures (including the GNU-specific extensions) to be accepted.
This can be useful with -std= to force standard compliance but get access to the full range of
intrinsics available with gfortran. As a consequence, -Wintrinsics-std is ignored and no user-
defined procedure with the same name as any intrinsic is called except when it is explicitly declared
"EXTERNAL".
-fallow-argument-mismatch
Some code contains calls to external procedures with mismatches between the calls and the procedure
definition, or with mismatches between different calls. Such code is nonconforming, and is usually
flagged with an error. This options degrades the error to a warning that can only be disabled by
disabling all warnings via -w. Only a single occurrence per argument is flagged by this warning.
-fallow-argument-mismatch is implied by -std=legacy.
Using this option is strongly discouraged. It is possible to provide standard-conforming code that
allows different types of arguments by using an explicit interface and TYPE(*).
-fallow-invalid-boz
A BOZ literal constant can occur in a limited number of contexts in standard conforming Fortran.
This option degrades an error condition to a warning, and allows a BOZ literal constant to appear
where the Fortran standard would otherwise prohibit its use.
-fd-lines-as-code
-fd-lines-as-comments
Enable special treatment for lines beginning with "d" or "D" in fixed form sources. If the
-fd-lines-as-code option is given they are treated as if the first column contained a blank. If the
-fd-lines-as-comments option is given, they are treated as comment lines.
-fdec
DEC compatibility mode. Enables extensions and other features that mimic the default behavior of
older compilers (such as DEC). These features are nonstandard and should be avoided at all costs.
For details on GNU Fortran's implementation of these extensions see the full documentation.
Other flags enabled by this switch are: -fdollar-ok -fcray-pointer -fdec-char-conversions
-fdec-structure -fdec-intrinsic-ints -fdec-static -fdec-math -fdec-include -fdec-blank-format-item
-fdec-format-defaults
If -fd-lines-as-code/-fd-lines-as-comments are unset, then -fdec also sets -fd-lines-as-comments.
-fdec-char-conversions
Enable the use of character literals in assignments and "DATA" statements for non-character
variables.
-fdec-structure
Enable DEC "STRUCTURE" and "RECORD" as well as "UNION", "MAP", and dot ('.') as a member separator
(in addition to '%'). This is provided for compatibility only; Fortran 90 derived types should be
used instead where possible.
-fdec-intrinsic-ints
Enable B/I/J/K kind variants of existing integer functions (e.g. "BIAND", "IIAND", "JIAND", etc...).
For a complete list of intrinsics see Intrinsic Procedures.
-fdec-math
Obsolete flag. The purpose of this option was to enable legacy math intrinsics such as "COTAN" and
degree-valued trigonometric functions (e.g. "TAND", "ATAND", etc...) for compatibility with older
code. This option is no longer operable. The trigonometric functions are now either part of Fortran
2023 or GNU extensions.
-fdec-static
Enable DEC-style "STATIC" and "AUTOMATIC" attributes to explicitly specify the storage of variables
and other objects.
-fdec-include
Enable parsing of "INCLUDE" as a statement in addition to parsing it as "INCLUDE" line. When parsed
as "INCLUDE" statement, "INCLUDE" does not have to be on a single line and can use line
continuations.
-fdec-format-defaults
Enable format specifiers F, G and I to be used without width specifiers; default widths are used
instead.
-fdec-blank-format-item
Enable a blank format item at the end of a format specification i.e. nothing following the final
comma.
-fdollar-ok
Allow $ as a valid non-first character in a symbol name. Symbols that start with $ are rejected since
it is unclear which rules to apply to implicit typing as different vendors implement different rules.
Using $ in "IMPLICIT" statements is also rejected.
-fbackslash
Change the interpretation of backslashes in string literals from a single backslash character to
"C-style" escape characters. The following combinations are expanded: \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \\,
and \0 to the ASCII characters alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab,
vertical tab, backslash, and NUL, respectively. Additionally, \xnn, \unnnn and \Unnnnnnnn (where
each n is a hexadecimal digit) are translated into the Unicode characters corresponding to the
specified code points. All other combinations of a character preceded by \ are unexpanded.
-fmodule-private
Set the default accessibility of module entities to "PRIVATE". Use-associated entities are not
accessible unless they are explicitly declared as "PUBLIC".
-ffixed-line-length-n
Set column after which characters are ignored in typical fixed-form lines in the source file, and,
unless "-fno-pad-source", through which spaces are assumed (as if padded to that length) after the
ends of short fixed-form lines.
Popular values for n include 72 (the standard and the default), 80 (card image), and 132
(corresponding to "extended-source" options in some popular compilers). n may also be none, meaning
that the entire line is meaningful and that continued character constants never have implicit spaces
appended to them to fill out the line. -ffixed-line-length-0 means the same thing as
-ffixed-line-length-none.
-fno-pad-source
By default fixed-form lines have spaces assumed (as if padded to that length) after the ends of short
fixed-form lines. This is not done either if -ffixed-line-length-0, -ffixed-line-length-none or if
-fno-pad-source option is used. With any of those options continued character constants never have
implicit spaces appended to them to fill out the line.
-ffree-line-length-n
Set column after which characters are ignored in typical free-form lines in the source file. The
default value is 132. n may be none, meaning that the entire line is meaningful.
-ffree-line-length-0 means the same thing as -ffree-line-length-none.
-fmax-identifier-length=n
Specify the maximum allowed identifier length. Typical values are 31 (Fortran 95) and 63 (Fortran
2003 and later).
-fimplicit-none
Specify that no implicit typing is allowed, unless overridden by explicit "IMPLICIT" statements.
This is the equivalent of adding "implicit none" to the start of every procedure.
-fcray-pointer
Enable the Cray pointer extension, which provides C-like pointer functionality.
-fopenacc
Enable handling of OpenACC directives !$acc in free-form Fortran and !$acc, c$acc and *$acc in fixed-
form Fortran. When -fopenacc is specified, the compiler generates accelerated code according to the
OpenACC Application Programming Interface v2.6 <https://www.openacc.org>. This option implies
-pthread, and thus is only supported on targets that have support for -pthread. The option -fopenacc
implies -frecursive.
-fopenmp
Enable handling of OpenMP directives !$omp in Fortran. It additionally enables the conditional
compilation sentinel !$ in Fortran. In fixed source form Fortran, the sentinels can also start with
c or *. When -fopenmp is specified, the compiler generates parallel code according to the OpenMP
Application Program Interface v4.5 <https://www.openmp.org>. This option implies -pthread, and thus
is only supported on targets that have support for -pthread. -fopenmp implies -fopenmp-simd and
-frecursive.
-fopenmp-allocators
Enables handling of allocation, reallocation and deallocation of Fortran allocatable and pointer
variables that are allocated using the !$omp allocators and !$omp allocate constructs. Files
containing either directive have to be compiled with this option in addition to -fopenmp.
Additionally, all files that might deallocate or reallocate a variable that has been allocated with
an OpenMP allocator have to be compiled with this option. This includes intrinsic assignment to
allocatable variables when reallocation may occur and deallocation due to either of the following:
end of scope, explicit deallocation, intent(out), deallocation of allocatable components etc. Files
not changing the allocation status or only for components of a derived type that have not been
allocated using those two directives do not need to be compiled with this option. Nor do files that
handle such variables after they have been deallocated or allocated by the normal Fortran allocator.
-fopenmp-simd
Enable handling of OpenMP's "simd", "declare simd", "declare reduction", "assume", "ordered", "scan"
and "loop" directive, and of combined or composite directives with "simd" as constituent with
"!$omp" in Fortran. It additionally enables the conditional compilation sentinel !$ in Fortran. In
fixed source form Fortran, the sentinels can also start with c or *. Other OpenMP directives are
ignored. Unless -fopenmp is additionally specified, the "loop" region binds to the current task
region, independent of the specified "bind" clause.
-fno-range-check
Disable range checking on results of simplification of constant expressions during compilation. For
example, GNU Fortran gives an error at compile time when simplifying "a = 1. / 0". With this option,
no error is given and "a" is assigned the value "+Infinity". If an expression evaluates to a value
outside of the relevant range of ["-HUGE()":HUGE()], then the expression is replaced by "-Inf" or
"+Inf" as appropriate. Similarly, "DATA i/Z'FFFFFFFF'/" results in an integer overflow on most
systems, but with -fno-range-check the value "wraps around" and "i" is initialized to -1 instead.
-fdefault-integer-8
Set the default integer and logical types to an 8 byte wide type. This option also affects the kind
of integer constants like 42. Unlike -finteger-4-integer-8, it does not promote variables with
explicit kind declaration.
-fdefault-real-8
Set the default real type to an 8 byte wide type. This option also affects the kind of non-double
real constants like 1.0. This option promotes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double
real constants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible. If "-fdefault-double-8" is given along with
"fdefault-real-8", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real constants are not promoted. Unlike
-freal-4-real-8, "fdefault-real-8" does not promote variables with explicit kind declarations.
-fdefault-real-10
Set the default real type to an 10 byte wide type. This option also affects the kind of non-double
real constants like 1.0. This option promotes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double
real constants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible. If "-fdefault-double-8" is given along with
"fdefault-real-10", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real constants are not promoted. Unlike
-freal-4-real-10, "fdefault-real-10" does not promote variables with explicit kind declarations.
-fdefault-real-16
Set the default real type to an 16 byte wide type. This option also affects the kind of non-double
real constants like 1.0. This option promotes the default width of "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double
real constants like "1.d0" to 16 bytes if possible. If "-fdefault-double-8" is given along with
"fdefault-real-16", "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real constants are not promoted. Unlike
-freal-4-real-16, "fdefault-real-16" does not promote variables with explicit kind declarations.
-fdefault-double-8
Set the "DOUBLE PRECISION" type and double real constants like "1.d0" to an 8 byte wide type. Do
nothing if this is already the default. This option prevents -fdefault-real-8, -fdefault-real-10,
and -fdefault-real-16, from promoting "DOUBLE PRECISION" and double real constants like "1.d0" to 16
bytes.
-finteger-4-integer-8
Promote all INTEGER(KIND=4) entities to an INTEGER(KIND=8) entities. If "KIND=8" is unavailable,
then an error is issued. This option should be used with care and may not be suitable for your
codes. Areas of possible concern include calls to external procedures, alignment in "EQUIVALENCE"
and/or "COMMON", generic interfaces, BOZ literal constant conversion, and I/O. Inspection of the
intermediate representation of the translated Fortran code, produced by -fdump-tree-original, is
suggested.
-freal-4-real-8
-freal-4-real-10
-freal-4-real-16
-freal-8-real-4
-freal-8-real-10
-freal-8-real-16
Promote all REAL(KIND=M) entities to REAL(KIND=N) entities. If REAL(KIND=N) is unavailable, then an
error is issued. The "-freal-4-" flags also affect the default real kind and the "-freal-8-" flags
also the double-precision real kind. All other real-kind types are unaffected by this option. The
promotion is also applied to real literal constants of default and double-precision kind and a
specified kind number of 4 or 8, respectively. However, "-fdefault-real-8", "-fdefault-real-10",
"-fdefault-real-10", and "-fdefault-double-8" take precedence for the default and double-precision
real kinds, both for real literal constants and for declarations without a kind number. Note that
for "REAL(KIND=KIND(1.0))" the literal may get promoted and then the result may get promoted again.
These options should be used with care and may not be suitable for your codes. Areas of possible
concern include calls to external procedures, alignment in "EQUIVALENCE" and/or "COMMON", generic
interfaces, BOZ literal constant conversion, and I/O and calls to intrinsic procedures when passing a
value to the "kind=" dummy argument. Inspection of the intermediate representation of the translated
Fortran code, produced by -fdump-fortran-original or -fdump-tree-original, is suggested.
-std=std
Specify the standard to which the program is expected to conform, which may be one of f95, f2003,
f2008, f2018, f2023, gnu, or legacy. The default value for std is gnu, which specifies a superset of
the latest Fortran standard that includes all of the extensions supported by GNU Fortran, although
warnings are given for obsolete extensions not recommended for use in new code. The legacy value is
equivalent but without the warnings for obsolete extensions, and may be useful for old nonstandard
programs. The f95, f2003, f2008, f2018, and f2023 values specify strict conformance to the Fortran
95, Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008, Fortran 2018 and Fortran 2023 standards, respectively; errors are
given for all extensions beyond the relevant language standard, and warnings are given for the
Fortran 77 features that are permitted but obsolescent in later standards. The deprecated option
-std=f2008ts acts as an alias for -std=f2018. It is only present for backwards compatibility with
earlier gfortran versions and should not be used any more. -std=f202y acts as an alias for -std=f2023
and enables proposed features for testing Fortran 202y. As the Fortran 202y standard develops,
implementation might change or the experimental new features might be removed.
-ftest-forall-temp
Enhance test coverage by forcing most forall assignments to use temporary.
-funsigned
Allow the experimental unsigned extension.
Enable and customize preprocessing
Many Fortran compilers including GNU Fortran allow passing the source code through a C preprocessor (CPP;
sometimes also called the Fortran preprocessor, FPP) to allow for conditional compilation. In the case
of GNU Fortran, this is the GNU C Preprocessor in the traditional mode. On systems with case-preserving
file names, the preprocessor is automatically invoked if the filename extension is .F, .FOR, .FTN, .fpp,
.FPP, .F90, .F95, .F03 or .F08. To manually invoke the preprocessor on any file, use -cpp, to disable
preprocessing on files where the preprocessor is run automatically, use -nocpp.
If a preprocessed file includes another file with the Fortran "INCLUDE" statement, the included file is
not preprocessed. To preprocess included files, use the equivalent preprocessor statement "#include".
If GNU Fortran invokes the preprocessor, "__GFORTRAN__" is defined. The macros "__GNUC__",
"__GNUC_MINOR__" and "__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__" can be used to determine the version of the compiler. See
Top,,Overview,cpp,The C Preprocessor for details.
GNU Fortran supports a number of "INTEGER" and "REAL" kind types in additional to the kind types required
by the Fortran standard. The availability of any given kind type is architecture dependent. The
following predefined preprocessor macros can be used to conditionally include code for these additional
kind types: "__GFC_INT_1__", "__GFC_INT_2__", "__GFC_INT_8__", "__GFC_INT_16__", "__GFC_REAL_10__", and
"__GFC_REAL_16__".
While CPP is the de facto standard for preprocessing Fortran code, Part 3 of the Fortran 95 standard
(ISO/IEC 1539-3:1998) defines Conditional Compilation, which is not widely used and not directly
supported by the GNU Fortran compiler.
The following options control preprocessing of Fortran code:
-cpp
-nocpp
Enable preprocessing. The preprocessor is automatically invoked if the file extension is .fpp, .FPP,
.F, .FOR, .FTN, .F90, .F95, .F03 or .F08. Use this option to manually enable preprocessing of any
kind of Fortran file.
To disable preprocessing of files with any of the above listed extensions, use the negative form:
-nocpp.
The preprocessor is run in traditional mode. Any restrictions of the file format, especially the
limits on line length, apply for preprocessed output as well, so it might be advisable to use the
-ffree-line-length-none or -ffixed-line-length-none options.
-dM Instead of the normal output, generate a list of '#define' directives for all the macros defined
during the execution of the preprocessor, including predefined macros. This gives you a way of
finding out what is predefined in your version of the preprocessor. Assuming you have no file
foo.f90, the command
touch foo.f90; gfortran -cpp -E -dM foo.f90
shows all the predefined macros.
-dD Like -dM except in two respects: it does not include the predefined macros, and it outputs both the
"#define" directives and the result of preprocessing. Both kinds of output go to the standard output
file.
-dN Like -dD, but emit only the macro names, not their expansions.
-dU Like dD except that only macros that are expanded, or whose definedness is tested in preprocessor
directives, are output; the output is delayed until the use or test of the macro; and '#undef'
directives are also output for macros tested but undefined at the time.
-dI Output '#include' directives in addition to the result of preprocessing.
-fworking-directory
Enable generation of linemarkers in the preprocessor output that let the compiler know the current
working directory at the time of preprocessing. When this option is enabled, the preprocessor emits,
after the initial linemarker, a second linemarker with the current working directory followed by two
slashes. GCC uses this directory, when it is present in the preprocessed input, as the directory
emitted as the current working directory in some debugging information formats. This option is
implicitly enabled if debugging information is enabled, but this can be inhibited with the negated
form -fno-working-directory. If the -P flag is present in the command line, this option has no
effect, since no "#line" directives are emitted whatsoever.
-idirafter dir
Search dir for include files, but do it after all directories specified with -I and the standard
system directories have been exhausted. dir is treated as a system include directory. If dir begins
with "=", then the "=" is replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.
-imultilib dir
Use dir as a subdirectory of the directory containing target-specific C++ headers.
-iprefix prefix
Specify prefix as the prefix for subsequent -iwithprefix options. If the prefix represents a
directory, you should include the final '/'.
-isysroot dir
This option is like the --sysroot option, but applies only to header files. See the --sysroot option
for more information.
-iquote dir
Search dir only for header files requested with "#include "file""; they are not searched for
"#include <file>", before all directories specified by -I and before the standard system directories.
If dir begins with "=", then the "=" is replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.
-isystem dir
Search dir for header files, after all directories specified by -I but before the standard system
directories. Mark it as a system directory, so that it gets the same special treatment as is applied
to the standard system directories. If dir begins with "=", then the "=" is replaced by the sysroot
prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot.
-nostdinc
Do not search the standard system directories for header files. Only the directories you have
specified with -I options (and the directory of the current file, if appropriate) are searched.
-undef
Do not predefine any system-specific or GCC-specific macros. The standard predefined macros remain
defined.
-Apredicate=answer
Make an assertion with the predicate predicate and answer answer. This form is preferred to the
older form -A predicate(answer), which is still supported, because it does not use shell special
characters.
-A-predicate=answer
Cancel an assertion with the predicate predicate and answer answer.
-C Do not discard comments. All comments are passed through to the output file, except for comments in
processed directives, which are deleted along with the directive.
You should be prepared for side effects when using -C; it causes the preprocessor to treat comments
as tokens in their own right. For example, comments appearing at the start of what would be a
directive line have the effect of turning that line into an ordinary source line, since the first
token on the line is no longer a '#'.
Warning: this currently handles C-Style comments only. The preprocessor does not yet recognize
Fortran-style comments.
-CC Do not discard comments, including during macro expansion. This is like -C, except that comments
contained within macros are also passed through to the output file where the macro is expanded.
In addition to the side-effects of the -C option, the -CC option causes all C++-style comments inside
a macro to be converted to C-style comments. This is to prevent later use of that macro from
inadvertently commenting out the remainder of the source line. The -CC option is generally used to
support lint comments.
Warning: this currently handles C- and C++-Style comments only. The preprocessor does not yet
recognize Fortran-style comments.
-Dname
Predefine name as a macro, with definition 1.
-Dname=definition
The contents of definition are tokenized and processed as if they appeared during translation phase
three in a '#define' directive. In particular, the definition is truncated by embedded newline
characters.
If you are invoking the preprocessor from a shell or shell-like program you may need to use the
shell's quoting syntax to protect characters such as spaces that have a meaning in the shell syntax.
If you wish to define a function-like macro on the command line, write its argument list with
surrounding parentheses before the equals sign (if any). Parentheses are meaningful to most shells,
so you need to quote the option. With sh and csh, "-D'name(args...)=definition'" works.
-D and -U options are processed in the order they are given on the command line. All -imacros file
and -include file options are processed after all -D and -U options.
-H Print the name of each header file used, in addition to other normal activities. Each name is
indented to show how deep in the '#include' stack it is.
-P Inhibit generation of linemarkers in the output from the preprocessor. This might be useful when
running the preprocessor on something that is not C code, and is sent to a program that might be
confused by the linemarkers.
-Uname
Cancel any previous definition of name, either built in or provided with a -D option.
Options to request or suppress errors and warnings
Errors are diagnostic messages that report that the GNU Fortran compiler cannot compile the relevant
piece of source code. The compiler continues to process the program in an attempt to report further
errors to aid in debugging, but does not produce any compiled output.
Warnings are diagnostic messages that report constructions that are not inherently erroneous but that are
risky or suggest there is likely to be a bug in the program. Unless -Werror is specified, they do not
prevent compilation of the program.
You can request many specific warnings with options beginning -W, for example -Wimplicit to request
warnings on implicit declarations. Each of these specific warning options also has a negative form
beginning -Wno- to turn off warnings; for example, -Wno-implicit. This manual lists only one of the two
forms, whichever is not the default.
These options control the amount and kinds of errors and warnings produced by GNU Fortran:
-fmax-errors=n
Limits the maximum number of error messages to n, at which point GNU Fortran bails out rather than
attempting to continue processing the source code. If n is 0, there is no limit on the number of
error messages produced.
-fsyntax-only
Check the code for syntax errors, but do not actually compile it. This generates module files for
each module present in the code, but no other output file.
-Wpedantic
-pedantic
Issue warnings for uses of extensions to Fortran. -pedantic also applies to C-language constructs
where they occur in GNU Fortran source files, such as use of \e in a character constant within a
directive like "#include".
Valid Fortran programs should compile properly with or without this option. However, without this
option, certain GNU extensions and traditional Fortran features are supported as well. With this
option, many of them are rejected.
Some users try to use -pedantic to check programs for conformance. They soon find that it does not
do quite what they want---it finds some nonstandard practices, but not all. However, improvements to
GNU Fortran in this area are welcome.
This should be used in conjunction with -std=f95, -std=f2003, -std=f2008, -std=f2018 or -std=f2023.
-pedantic-errors
Like -pedantic, except that errors are produced rather than warnings.
-Wall
Enables commonly used warning options pertaining to usage that we recommend avoiding and that we
believe are easy to avoid. This currently includes -Waliasing, -Wampersand, -Wconversion,
-Wsurprising, -Wc-binding-type, -Wintrinsics-std, -Wtabs, -Wintrinsic-shadow, -Wline-truncation,
-Wtarget-lifetime, -Winteger-division, -Wreal-q-constant, -Wunused and -Wundefined-do-loop.
-Waliasing
Warn about possible aliasing of dummy arguments. Specifically, it warns if the same actual argument
is associated with a dummy argument with INTENT(IN) and a dummy argument with INTENT(OUT) in a call
with an explicit interface.
The following example triggers the warning.
interface
subroutine bar(a,b)
integer, intent(in) :: a
integer, intent(out) :: b
end subroutine
end interface
integer :: a
call bar(a,a)
-Wampersand
Warn about missing ampersand in continued character constants. The warning is given with -Wampersand,
-pedantic, -std=f95, -std=f2003, -std=f2008, -std=f2018 and -std=f2023. Note: With no ampersand given
in a continued character constant, GNU Fortran assumes continuation at the first non-comment, non-
whitespace character after the ampersand that initiated the continuation.
-Warray-temporaries
Warn about array temporaries generated by the compiler. The information generated by this warning is
sometimes useful in optimization, in order to avoid such temporaries.
-Wc-binding-type
Warn if the a variable might not be C interoperable. In particular, warn if the variable has been
declared using an intrinsic type with default kind instead of using a kind parameter defined for C
interoperability in the intrinsic "ISO_C_Binding" module. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wcharacter-truncation
Warn when a character assignment truncates the assigned string.
-Wline-truncation
Warn when a source code line is truncated. This option is implied by -Wall. For free-form source
code, the default is -Werror=line-truncation such that truncations are reported as error.
-Wconversion
Warn about implicit conversions that are likely to change the value of the expression after
conversion. Implied by -Wall.
-Wconversion-extra
Warn about implicit conversions between different types and kinds. This option does not imply
-Wconversion.
-Wexternal-argument-mismatch
Warn about argument mismatches for dummy external procedures. This is implied by
-fc-prototypes-external because generation of a valid C23 interface is not possible in such a case.
Also implied by -Wall.
-Wextra
Enables some warning options for usages of language features that may be problematic. This currently
includes -Wcompare-reals, -Wunused-parameter and -Wdo-subscript.
-Wfrontend-loop-interchange
Warn when using -ffrontend-loop-interchange for performing loop interchanges.
-Wimplicit-interface
Warn if a procedure is called without an explicit interface. Note this only checks that an explicit
interface is present. It does not check that the declared interfaces are consistent across program
units.
-Wimplicit-procedure
Warn if a procedure is called that has neither an explicit interface nor has been declared as
"EXTERNAL".
-Winteger-division
Warn if a constant integer division truncates its result. As an example, 3/5 evaluates to 0.
-Wintrinsics-std
Warn if gfortran finds a procedure named like an intrinsic not available in the currently selected
standard (with -std) and treats it as "EXTERNAL" procedure because of this. -fall-intrinsics can be
used to never trigger this behavior and always link to the intrinsic regardless of the selected
standard.
-Wno-overwrite-recursive
Do not warn when -fno-automatic is used with -frecursive. Recursion is broken if the relevant local
variables do not have the attribute "AUTOMATIC" explicitly declared. This option can be used to
suppress the warning when it is known that recursion is not broken. Useful for build environments
that use -Werror.
-Wreal-q-constant
Produce a warning if a real-literal-constant contains a "q" exponent-letter.
-Wsurprising
Produce a warning when "suspicious" code constructs are encountered. While technically legal these
usually indicate that an error has been made.
This currently produces a warning under the following circumstances:
* An "INTEGER"-typed "SELECT CASE" construct has a "CASE" that can never be matched as its lower
value is greater than its upper value.
* A "LOGICAL"-typed "SELECT CASE" construct has three "CASE" statements.
* A "TRANSFER" specifies a source that is shorter than the destination.
* The type of a function result is declared more than once with the same type. If -pedantic or
standard-conforming mode is enabled, this is an error.
* A "CHARACTER" variable is declared with negative length.
* With -fopenmp, for fixed-form source code, when an "omx" vendor-extension sentinel is
encountered. (The equivalent "ompx", used in free-form source code, is diagnosed by default.)
-Wtabs
By default, tabs are accepted as whitespace, but tabs are not members of the Fortran Character Set.
For continuation lines, a tab followed by a digit between 1 and 9 is supported. -Wtabs causes a
warning to be issued if a tab is encountered. Note, -Wtabs is active for -pedantic, -std=f95,
-std=f2003, -std=f2008, -std=f2018, -std=f2023 and -Wall.
-Wundefined-do-loop
Warn if a "DO" loop with step either 1 or -1 yields an underflow or an overflow during iteration of
an induction variable of the loop. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wunderflow
Produce a warning when numerical constant expressions that yield an underflow are encountered during
compilation. Enabled by default.
-Wintrinsic-shadow
Warn if a user-defined procedure or module procedure has the same name as an intrinsic; in this case,
an explicit interface or "EXTERNAL" or "INTRINSIC" declaration might be needed to get calls later
resolved to the desired intrinsic/procedure. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wuse-without-only
Warn if a "USE" statement has no "ONLY" qualifier and thus implicitly imports all public entities of
the used module.
-Wunused-dummy-argument
Warn about unused dummy arguments. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wunused-parameter
Contrary to gcc's meaning of -Wunused-parameter, gfortran's implementation of this option does not
warn about unused dummy arguments (see -Wunused-dummy-argument), but about unused "PARAMETER" values.
-Wunused-parameter is implied by -Wextra if also -Wunused or -Wall is used.
-Walign-commons
By default, gfortran warns about any occasion of variables being padded for proper alignment inside a
"COMMON" block. This warning can be turned off via -Wno-align-commons. See also -falign-commons.
-Wfunction-elimination
Warn if any calls to impure functions are eliminated by the optimizations enabled by the
-ffrontend-optimize option. This option is implied by -Wextra.
-Wrealloc-lhs
Warn when the compiler might insert code to for allocation or reallocation of an allocatable array
variable of intrinsic type in intrinsic assignments. In hot loops, the Fortran 2003 reallocation
feature may reduce the performance. If the array is already allocated with the correct shape,
consider using a whole-array array-spec (e.g. "(:,:,:)") for the variable on the left-hand side to
prevent the reallocation check. Note that in some cases the warning is shown, even if the compiler
optimizes reallocation checks away. For instance, when the right-hand side contains the same
variable multiplied by a scalar. See also -frealloc-lhs.
-Wrealloc-lhs-all
Warn when the compiler inserts code to for allocation or reallocation of an allocatable variable;
this includes scalars and derived types.
-Wcompare-reals
Warn when comparing real or complex types for equality or inequality. This option is implied by
-Wextra.
-Wtarget-lifetime
Warn if the pointer in a pointer assignment might be longer than the its target. This option is
implied by -Wall.
-Wzerotrip
Warn if a "DO" loop is known to execute zero times at compile time. This option is implied by -Wall.
-Wdo-subscript
Warn if an array subscript inside a "DO" loop could lead to an out-of-bounds access even if the
compiler cannot prove that the statement is actually executed, in cases like
real a(3)
do i=1,4
if (condition(i)) then
a(i) = 1.2
end if
end do
This option is implied by -Wextra.
-Werror
Turns all warnings into errors.
Some of these have no effect when compiling programs written in Fortran.
Options for debugging your program
GNU Fortran has various special options that are used for debugging your program.
-fdebug-aux-vars
Renames internal variables created by the gfortran front end and makes them accessible to a debugger.
The name of the internal variables then start with uppercase letters followed by an underscore. This
option is useful for debugging the compiler's code generation together with "-fdump-tree-original"
and enabling debugging of the executable program by using "-g" or "-ggdb3".
-ffpe-trap=list
Specify a list of floating point exception traps to enable. On most systems, if a floating point
exception occurs and the trap for that exception is enabled, a "SIGFPE" signal is sent and the
program being aborted, producing a core file useful for debugging. list is a (possibly empty) comma-
separated list of either none (to clear the set of exceptions to be trapped), or of the following
exceptions: invalid (invalid floating point operation, such as SQRT(-1.0)), zero (division by zero),
overflow (overflow in a floating point operation), underflow (underflow in a floating point
operation), inexact (loss of precision during operation), and denormal (operation performed on a
denormal value). The first five exceptions correspond to the five IEEE 754 exceptions, whereas the
last one (denormal) is not part of the IEEE 754 standard but is available on some common
architectures such as x86.
The first three exceptions (invalid, zero, and overflow) often indicate serious errors, and unless
the program has provisions for dealing with these exceptions, enabling traps for these three
exceptions is probably a good idea.
If the option is used more than once in the command line, the lists are joined: '"ffpe-trap="list1
"ffpe-trap="list2' is equivalent to "ffpe-trap="list1,list2.
Note that once enabled an exception cannot be disabled (no negative form), except by clearing all
traps by specifying none.
Many, if not most, floating point operations incur loss of precision due to rounding, and hence the
"ffpe-trap=inexact" is likely to be uninteresting in practice.
By default no exception traps are enabled.
-ffpe-summary=list
Specify a list of floating-point exceptions, whose flag status is printed to "ERROR_UNIT" when
invoking "STOP" and "ERROR STOP". list can be either none, all or a comma-separated list of the
following exceptions: invalid, zero, overflow, underflow, inexact and denormal. (See -ffpe-trap for a
description of the exceptions.)
If the option is used more than once in the command line, only the last one is used.
By default, a summary for all exceptions but inexact is shown.
-fno-backtrace
When a serious runtime error is encountered or a deadly signal is emitted (segmentation fault,
illegal instruction, bus error, floating-point exception, and the other POSIX signals that have the
action core), the Fortran runtime library tries to output a backtrace of the error. "-fno-backtrace"
disables the backtrace generation. This option only has influence for compilation of the Fortran main
program.
Options for directory search
These options affect how GNU Fortran searches for files specified by the "INCLUDE" directive and where it
searches for previously compiled modules.
It also affects the search paths used by cpp when used to preprocess Fortran source.
-Idir
These affect interpretation of the "INCLUDE" directive (as well as of the "#include" directive of the
cpp preprocessor).
Also note that the general behavior of -I and "INCLUDE" is pretty much the same as of -I with
"#include" in the cpp preprocessor, with regard to looking for header.gcc files and other such
things.
This path is also used to search for .mod files when previously compiled modules are required by a
"USE" statement.
-Jdir
This option specifies where to put .mod files for compiled modules. It is also added to the list of
directories to searched by an "USE" statement.
The default is the current directory.
-fintrinsic-modules-path dir
This option specifies the location of pre-compiled intrinsic modules, if they are not in the default
location expected by the compiler.
Influencing the linking step
These options come into play when the compiler links object files into an executable output file. They
are meaningless if the compiler is not doing a link step.
-static-libgfortran
On systems that provide libgfortran as a shared and a static library, this option forces the use of
the static version. If no shared version of libgfortran was built when the compiler was configured,
this option has no effect.
-static-libquadmath
On systems that provide libquadmath as a shared and a static library, this option forces the use of
the static version. If no shared version of libquadmath was built when the compiler was configured,
this option has no effect.
Please note that the libquadmath runtime library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL), and linking it statically introduces requirements when redistributing the resulting
binaries.
Influencing runtime behavior
These options affect the runtime behavior of programs compiled with GNU Fortran.
-fconvert=conversion
Specify the representation of data for unformatted files. Valid values for conversion on most
systems are: native, the default; swap, swap between big- and little-endian; big-endian, use big-
endian representation for unformatted files; little-endian, use little-endian representation for
unformatted files.
On POWER systems that suppport -mabi=ieeelongdouble, there are additional options, which can be
combined with others with commas. Those are
@w<-fconvert=r16_ieee Use IEEE 128-bit format for>
REAL(KIND=16).
@w<-fconvert=r16_ibm Use IBM long double format for>
REAL(KIND=16).
This option has an effect only when used in the main program. The "CONVERT" specifier and the
GFORTRAN_CONVERT_UNIT environment variable override the default specified by -fconvert.
-frecord-marker=length
Specify the length of record markers for unformatted files. Valid values for length are 4 and 8.
Default is 4. This is different from previous versions of gfortran, which specified a default record
marker length of 8 on most systems. If you want to read or write files compatible with earlier
versions of gfortran, use -frecord-marker=8.
-fmax-subrecord-length=length
Specify the maximum length for a subrecord. The maximum permitted value for length is 2147483639,
which is also the default. Only really useful for use by the gfortran testsuite.
-fsign-zero
When enabled, floating point numbers of value zero with the sign bit set are written as negative
number in formatted output and treated as negative in the "SIGN" intrinsic. -fno-sign-zero does not
print the negative sign of zero values (or values rounded to zero for I/O) and regards zero as
positive number in the "SIGN" intrinsic for compatibility with Fortran 77. The default is
-fsign-zero.
GNU Fortran Developer Options
GNU Fortran has various special options that are used for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler.
-fdump-fortran-global
Output a list of the global identifiers after translating into middle-end representation. Mostly
useful for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. The output generated by this option might
change between releases. This option may also generate internal compiler errors for features that
have only recently been added.
-fdump-fortran-optimized
Output the parse tree after front-end optimization. Mostly useful for debugging the GNU Fortran
compiler itself. The output generated by this option might change between releases. This option may
also generate internal compiler errors for features that have only recently been added.
-fdump-fortran-original
Output the internal parse tree after translating the source program into internal representation.
This option is mostly useful for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. The output generated by
this option might change between releases. This option may also generate internal compiler errors for
features that have only recently been added.
-fdump-parse-tree
Output the internal parse tree after translating the source program into internal representation.
Mostly useful for debugging the GNU Fortran compiler itself. The output generated by this option
might change between releases. This option may also generate internal compiler errors for features
that have only recently been added. This option is deprecated; use "-fdump-fortran-original" instead.
-save-temps
Store the usual "temporary" intermediate files permanently; name them as auxiliary output files, as
specified described under GCC -dumpbase and -dumpdir.
gfortran -save-temps -c foo.F90
preprocesses input file foo.F90 to foo.fii, compiles to an intermediate foo.s, and then assembles to
the (implied) output file foo.o, whereas:
gfortran -save-temps -S foo.F
saves the preprocessor output in foo.fi, and then compiles to the (implied) output file foo.s.
Options for code generation conventions
These machine-independent options control the interface conventions used in code generation.
Most of them have both positive and negative forms; the negative form of -ffoo would be -fno-foo. In the
table below, only one of the forms is listed---the one that is not the default. You can figure out the
other form by either removing no- or adding it.
-fno-automatic
Treat each program unit (except those marked as "RECURSIVE") as if the "SAVE" statement were
specified for every local variable and array referenced in it. Does not affect common blocks. (Some
Fortran compilers provide this option under the name -static or -save.) The default, which is
-fautomatic, uses the stack for local variables smaller than the value given by -fmax-stack-var-size.
Use the option -frecursive to use no static memory.
Local variables or arrays having an explicit "SAVE" attribute are silently ignored unless the
-pedantic option is added.
-ff2c
Generate code designed to be compatible with code generated by g77 and f2c.
The calling conventions used by g77 (originally implemented in f2c) require functions that return
type default "REAL" to actually return the C type "double", and functions that return type "COMPLEX"
to return the values via an extra argument in the calling sequence that points to where to store the
return value. Under the default GNU calling conventions, such functions simply return their results
as they would in GNU C---default "REAL" functions return the C type "float", and "COMPLEX" functions
return the GNU C type "complex". Additionally, this option implies the -fsecond-underscore option,
unless -fno-second-underscore is explicitly requested.
This does not affect the generation of code that interfaces with the libgfortran library.
Caution: It is not a good idea to mix Fortran code compiled with -ff2c with code compiled with the
default -fno-f2c calling conventions as, calling "COMPLEX" or default "REAL" functions between
program parts that were compiled with different calling conventions will break at execution time.
Caution: This breaks code that passes intrinsic functions of type default "REAL" or "COMPLEX" as
actual arguments, as the library implementations use the -fno-f2c calling conventions.
-fno-underscoring
Do not transform names of entities specified in the Fortran source file by appending underscores to
them.
With -funderscoring in effect, GNU Fortran appends one underscore to external names. This is done to
ensure compatibility with code produced by many UNIX Fortran compilers. Note this does not apply to
names declared with C binding, or within a module.
Caution: The default behavior of GNU Fortran is incompatible with f2c and g77, please use the -ff2c
option if you want object files compiled with GNU Fortran to be compatible with object code created
with these tools.
Use of -fno-underscoring is not recommended unless you are experimenting with issues such as
integration of GNU Fortran into existing system environments (vis-à-vis existing libraries, tools,
and so on).
For example, with -funderscoring, and assuming that j() and max_count() are external functions while
"my_var" and "lvar" are local variables, a Fortran statement like
I = J() + MAX_COUNT (MY_VAR, LVAR)
is implemented as something akin to the C code:
i = j_() + max_count_(&my_var, &lvar);
With -fno-underscoring, the same statement is implemented as:
i = j() + max_count(&my_var, &lvar);
Use of -fno-underscoring allows direct specification of user-defined names while debugging and when
interfacing GNU Fortran code with other languages.
Note that just because the names match does not mean that the interface implemented by GNU Fortran
for an external name matches the interface implemented by some other language for that same name.
That is, getting code produced by GNU Fortran to link to code produced by some other compiler using
this or any other method can be only a small part of the overall solution---getting the code
generated by both compilers to agree on issues other than naming can require significant effort, and,
unlike naming disagreements, linkers normally cannot detect disagreements in these other areas.
Also, note that with -fno-underscoring, the lack of appended underscores introduces the very real
possibility that a user-defined external name conflicts with a name in a system library, which could
make finding unresolved-reference bugs quite difficult in some cases---they might occur at program
run time, and show up only as buggy behavior at run time.
Also note that declaring symbols as bind(C) is a more robust way to interface with code written in
other languages or compiled with different Fortran compilers than the command-line options documented
in this section.
-fsecond-underscore
By default, GNU Fortran appends an underscore to external names. If this option is used, GNU Fortran
appends two underscores to names with underscores and one underscore to names with no underscores.
For example, an external name such as "MAX_COUNT" is implemented as a reference to the link-time
external symbol "max_count__", instead of "max_count_". This is required for compatibility with g77
and f2c, and is implied by use of the -ff2c option.
This option has no effect if -fno-underscoring is in effect. It is implied by the -ff2c option.
-fcoarray=<keyword>
none
Disable coarray support; using coarray declarations and image-control statements produces a
compile-time error. (Default)
single
Single-image mode, i.e. num_images() is always one.
lib Library-based coarray parallelization; a suitable GNU Fortran coarray library such as
<http://opencoarrays.org> needs to be linked. Alternatively, GCC's "libcaf_single" library can
be linked, albeit it only supports a single image.
-fcheck=<keyword>
Enable the generation of run-time checks; the argument shall be a comma-delimited list of the
following keywords. Prefixing a check with no- disables it if it was activated by a previous
specification.
all Enable all run-time test of -fcheck.
array-temps
Warns at run time when for passing an actual argument a temporary array had to be generated. The
information generated by this warning is sometimes useful in optimization, in order to avoid such
temporaries.
Note: The warning is only printed once per location.
bits
Enable generation of run-time checks for invalid arguments to the bit manipulation intrinsics.
bounds
Enable generation of run-time checks for array subscripts and against the declared minimum and
maximum values. It also checks array indices for assumed and deferred shape arrays against the
actual allocated bounds and ensures that all string lengths are equal for character array
constructors without an explicit typespec.
Some checks require that -fcheck=bounds is set for the compilation of the main program.
Note: In the future this may also include other forms of checking, e.g., checking substring
references.
do Enable generation of run-time checks for invalid modification of loop iteration variables.
mem Enable generation of run-time checks for memory allocation. Note: This option does not affect
explicit allocations using the "ALLOCATE" statement, which are always checked.
pointer
Enable generation of run-time checks for pointers and allocatables.
recursion
Enable generation of run-time checks for recursively called subroutines and functions that are
not marked as recursive. See also -frecursive. Note: This check does not work for OpenMP
programs and is disabled if used together with -frecursive and -fopenmp.
Example: Assuming you have a file foo.f90, the command
gfortran -fcheck=all,no-array-temps foo.f90
compiles the file with all checks enabled as specified above except warnings for generated array
temporaries.
-fbounds-check
Deprecated alias for -fcheck=bounds.
-ftail-call-workaround
-ftail-call-workaround=n
Some C interfaces to Fortran codes violate the gfortran ABI by omitting the hidden character length
arguments as described in
This can lead to crashes because pushing arguments for tail calls can overflow the stack.
To provide a workaround for existing binary packages, this option disables tail call optimization for
gfortran procedures with character arguments. With -ftail-call-workaround=2 tail call optimization
is disabled in all gfortran procedures with character arguments, with -ftail-call-workaround=1 or
equivalent -ftail-call-workaround only in gfortran procedures with character arguments that call
implicitly prototyped procedures.
Using this option can lead to problems including crashes due to insufficient stack space.
It is very strongly recommended to fix the code in question. The -fc-prototypes-external option can
be used to generate prototypes that conform to gfortran's ABI, for inclusion in the source code.
Support for this option will likely be withdrawn in a future release of gfortran.
The negative form, -fno-tail-call-workaround or equivalent -ftail-call-workaround=0, can be used to
disable this option.
Default is currently -ftail-call-workaround, this will change in future releases.
-fcheck-array-temporaries
Deprecated alias for -fcheck=array-temps.
-fmax-array-constructor=n
This option can be used to increase the upper limit permitted in array constructors. The code below
requires this option to expand the array at compile time.
program test
implicit none
integer j
integer, parameter :: n = 100000
integer, parameter :: i(n) = (/ (2*j, j = 1, n) /)
print '(10(I0,1X))', i
end program test
Caution: This option can lead to long compile times and excessively large object files.
The default value for n is 65535.
-fmax-stack-var-size=n
This option specifies the size in bytes of the largest array that is put on the stack; if the size is
exceeded static memory is used (except in procedures marked as "RECURSIVE"). Use the option
-frecursive to allow for recursive procedures that do not have a "RECURSIVE" attribute or for
parallel programs. Use -fno-automatic to never use the stack.
This option currently only affects local arrays declared with constant bounds, and may not apply to
all character variables. Future versions of GNU Fortran may improve this behavior.
The default value for n is 65536.
-fstack-arrays
Adding this option makes the Fortran compiler put all arrays of unknown size and array temporaries
onto stack memory. If your program uses very large local arrays it is possible that you have to
extend your runtime limits for stack memory on some operating systems. This flag is enabled by
default at optimization level -Ofast unless -fmax-stack-var-size is specified.
-fpack-derived
This option tells GNU Fortran to pack derived type members as closely as possible. Code compiled
with this option is likely to be incompatible with code compiled without this option, and may execute
slower.
-frepack-arrays
In some circumstances GNU Fortran may pass assumed shape array sections via a descriptor describing a
noncontiguous area of memory. This option adds code to the function prologue to repack the data into
a contiguous block at runtime.
This should result in faster accesses to the array. However it can introduce significant overhead to
the function call, especially when the passed data is noncontiguous.
-fshort-enums
This option is provided for interoperability with C code that was compiled with the -fshort-enums
option. It makes GNU Fortran choose the smallest "INTEGER" kind a given enumerator set fits in, and
give all its enumerators this kind.
-finline-arg-packing
When passing an assumed-shape argument of a procedure as actual argument to an assumed-size or
explicit size or as argument to a procedure that does not have an explicit interface, the argument
may have to be packed; that is, put into contiguous memory. An example is the call to "foo" in
subroutine foo(a)
real, dimension(*) :: a
end subroutine foo
subroutine bar(b)
real, dimension(:) :: b
call foo(b)
end subroutine bar
When -finline-arg-packing is in effect, this packing is performed by inline code. This allows for
more optimization while increasing code size.
-finline-arg-packing is implied by any of the -O options except when optimizing for size via -Os. If
the code contains a very large number of argument that have to be packed, code size and also
compilation time may become excessive. If that is the case, it may be better to disable this option.
Instances of packing can be found by using -Warray-temporaries.
-fexternal-blas
This option makes gfortran generate calls to BLAS functions for some matrix operations like "MATMUL",
instead of using our own algorithms, if the size of the matrices involved is larger than a given
limit (see -fblas-matmul-limit). This may be profitable if an optimized vendor BLAS library is
available. The BLAS library has to be specified at link time.
-fblas-matmul-limit=n
Only significant when -fexternal-blas is in effect. Matrix multiplication of matrices with size
larger than (or equal to) n is performed by calls to BLAS functions, while others are handled by
gfortran internal algorithms. If the matrices involved are not square, the size comparison is
performed using the geometric mean of the dimensions of the argument and result matrices.
The default value for n is 30.
-finline-intrinsics
-finline-intrinsics=intr1,intr2,...
Prefer generating inline code over calls to libgfortran functions to implement intrinsics.
Usage of intrinsics can be implemented either by generating a call to the libgfortran library
function or by directly generating inline code. For most intrinsics, only a single variant is
available, and there is no choice of implementation. However, some intrinsics can use a library
function or inline code, where inline code typically offers opportunities for additional optimization
over a library function. With "-finline-intrinsics=..." or "-fno-inline-intrinsics=...", the choice
applies only to the intrinsics present in the comma-separated list provided as argument.
For each intrinsic, if no choice of implementation was made through either of the flag variants, a
default behavior is chosen depending on optimization: library calls are generated when not optimizing
or when optimizing for size; otherwise inline code is preferred.
The set of intrinsics allowed as argument to "-finline-intrinsics=" is currently limited to "MAXLOC"
and "MINLOC". The effect of the flag is moreover limited to calls of those intrinsics without "DIM"
argument and with "ARRAY" of a non-"CHARACTER" type. The case of rank-1 argument and "DIM" argument
present, i.e. "MAXLOC(A(:),DIM=1)" or "MINLOC(A(:),DIM=1)" is inlined unconditionally for numeric
rank-1 array argument "A".
-finline-matmul-limit=n
When front-end optimization is active, some calls to the "MATMUL" intrinsic function are inlined.
This may result in code size increase if the size of the matrix cannot be determined at compile time,
as code for both cases is generated. Setting "-finline-matmul-limit=0" disables inlining in all
cases. Setting this option with a value of n produces inline code for matrices with size up to n. If
the matrices involved are not square, the size comparison is performed using the geometric mean of
the dimensions of the argument and result matrices.
The default value for n is 30. The "-fblas-matmul-limit" can be used to change this value.
-frecursive
Allow indirect recursion by forcing all local arrays to be allocated on the stack. This flag cannot
be used together with -fmax-stack-var-size= or -fno-automatic.
-finit-local-zero
-finit-derived
-finit-integer=n
-finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan>
-finit-logical=<true|false>
-finit-character=n
The -finit-local-zero option instructs the compiler to initialize local "INTEGER", "REAL", and
"COMPLEX" variables to zero, "LOGICAL" variables to false, and "CHARACTER" variables to a string of
null bytes. Finer-grained initialization options are provided by the -finit-integer=n,
-finit-real=<zero|inf|-inf|nan|snan> (which also initializes the real and imaginary parts of local
"COMPLEX" variables), -finit-logical=<true|false>, and -finit-character=n (where n is an ASCII
character value) options.
With -finit-derived, components of derived type variables are initialized according to these flags.
Components whose type is not covered by an explicit -finit-* flag are treated as described above with
-finit-local-zero.
These options do not initialize
* objects with the "POINTER" attribute
* allocatable arrays
* variables that appear in an "EQUIVALENCE" statement.
(These limitations may be removed in future releases).
Note that the -finit-real=nan option initializes "REAL" and "COMPLEX" variables with a quiet NaN. For
a signalling NaN use -finit-real=snan; note, however, that compile-time optimizations may convert
them into quiet NaN and that trapping needs to be enabled (e.g. via -ffpe-trap).
The -finit-integer option parses the value into an integer of type INTEGER(kind=C_LONG) on the host.
Said value is then assigned to the integer variables in the Fortran code, which might result in
wraparound if the value is too large for the kind.
Finally, note that enabling any of the -finit-* options silences warnings that would have been
emitted by -Wuninitialized for the affected local variables.
-falign-commons
By default, gfortran enforces proper alignment of all variables in a "COMMON" block by padding them
as needed. On certain platforms this is mandatory, on others it increases performance. If a "COMMON"
block is not declared with consistent data types everywhere, this padding can cause trouble, and
-fno-align-commons can be used to disable automatic alignment. The same form of this option should be
used for all files that share a "COMMON" block. To avoid potential alignment issues in "COMMON"
blocks, it is recommended to order objects from largest to smallest.
-fno-protect-parens
By default the parentheses in expression are honored for all optimization levels such that the
compiler does not do any reassociation. Using -fno-protect-parens allows the compiler to reorder
"REAL" and "COMPLEX" expressions to produce faster code. Note that for the reassociation optimization
-fno-signed-zeros and -fno-trapping-math need to be in effect. The parentheses protection is enabled
by default, unless -Ofast is given.
-frealloc-lhs
An allocatable left-hand side of an intrinsic assignment is automatically (re)allocated if it is
either unallocated or has a different shape. The option is enabled by default except when -std=f95 is
given. See also -Wrealloc-lhs.
-faggressive-function-elimination
Functions with identical argument lists are eliminated within statements, regardless of whether these
functions are marked "PURE" or not. For example, in
a = f(b,c) + f(b,c)
there is only a single call to "f". This option only works if -ffrontend-optimize is in effect.
-ffrontend-optimize
This option performs front-end optimization, based on manipulating parts of the Fortran parse tree.
Enabled by default by any -O option except -O0 and -Og. Optimizations enabled by this option
include:
*<inlining calls to "MATMUL",>
*<elimination of identical function calls within expressions,>
*<removing unnecessary calls to "TRIM" in comparisons and assignments,>
*<replacing TRIM(a) with "a(1:LEN_TRIM(a))" and>
*<short-circuiting of logical operators (".AND." and ".OR.").>
It can be deselected by specifying -fno-frontend-optimize.
-ffrontend-loop-interchange
Attempt to interchange loops in the Fortran front end where profitable. Enabled by default by any -O
option. At the moment, this option only affects "FORALL" and "DO CONCURRENT" statements with several
forall triplets.
ENVIRONMENT
The gfortran compiler currently does not make use of any environment variables to control its operation
above and beyond those that affect the operation of gcc.
BUGS
For instructions on reporting bugs, see <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-15/README.Bugs>.
SEE ALSO
gpl(7), gfdl(7), fsf-funding(7), cpp(1), gcov(1), gcc(1), as(1), ld(1), gdb(1), dbx(1) and the Info
entries for gcc, cpp, gfortran, as, ld, binutils and gdb.
AUTHOR
See the Info entry for gfortran for contributors to GCC and GNU Fortran.
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