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C/C++ and Fortran Compilers

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More complete C++11 support in xlC

PMR 59710 300 624 showed that the support for the standard C++ library, C++11 level, is incomplete. Please speed up the work on that. In particular, unique_ptr is not present in the standard library, shared_ptr is in a nonstandard namespace std::t...
about 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Inefficient store/load of immediate before inline __asm

Inefficient store/load of immediate before inline __asm Optimization concern after function inlining of function with inline ASM. The 'abend(1000)' call in mainz() looks good: LGHI 1,1000 000003 ABEND (1) +000005 But the 'abend(500)' call that get...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

URT license tracking for Open XLC/C++ v17

AIX XLC/C++ licenses purchased from IBM are user based (shared or named). The external auditors appointed by IBM, request/collect several times per year the URT statistics (supported until XLC/C++ v16) to check license compliancy. With Open XlC/C+...
over 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

short int as a bitfield in XL C and XL C++

This request is for short int types as bitfields in a struct. There doesn't appear to be a specific standard requirement to include the short datatype as a potential bitfield value, however C and C++ differ in how they treat the type. C outputs an...
over 7 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Support GNU GCC visibility attribute.

Add support for GNU GCC visibility attribute to replace the current approach for defining linkage of declaration of symbols.
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

XLF: -qinfo=omperrtrace. Request for resumed development.

SalesForce Case: TS001869065PMR: 80662,227,000 Roy Musselman (Customer)6 Mar 2019 2:02 PM This note is a follow-up to document a very productive teleconference today between the originator, Aaron Black at LLNL, and the XL compiler team (Wang Chen,...
almost 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 2 Delivered

XLF: Support for Fortran 2008 feature for non-Null data pointer initialization

In pursuit of the adoption of RAII (Resource acquisition is initialization) the client has a major dependency on a Fortran 2008 feature that is currently not supported by the IBM XLF compiler. The feature is described in section "5.5 Pointer Initi...
almost 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 2 Delivered

XLF: Support for Fortran 2008 feature for non-Null procedure pointer initialization

SalesForce Case: TS002130032PMR: 84896,227,000 In pursuit of the adoption of RAII (Resource acquisition is initialization) the client has a major dependency on a Fortran 2008 feature that is currently not supported by the IBM XLF compiler. The fea...
almost 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 2 Delivered

Support OpenMP reduction on variable-length array (C99)

OpenMP reductions on variable-length arrays (which are part of the C99 standard) are currently unsupported by the IBM XL C/C++ compiler.
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Delivered

'dis' tool support for #pragma comment data

This request concerns #pragma comment to add user and date info to object files. When an object file is generated directly from XLC, the strings are present in the object. If -S is used or if the object is disassembled using the 'dis' tool, then r...
almost 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

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