topic Re: Small documentation error in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Small documentation error

OP1 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:04:19 GMT

The online documentation for BLOCK states that:

[...]

block

Is a sequence of zero or more statements or constructs, except for the following:

CONTAINS (outside of a TYPE definition)
ENTRY
IMPORT (outside of a TYPE definition)
Statement functions

I believe that the statement in bold is incorrect: it is possible (and in fact, rather useful) to use IMPORT statements inside BLOCK constructs.

Re: Small documentation error

Steve_Lionel — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:19:16 GMT

Yes, that's new in F2018 and this was apparently missed by the Intel team.

Re: Small documentation error

Barbara_P_Intel — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:34:57 GMT

Both ifort and ifx accept IMPORT in a BLOCK construct. I submitted a bug report for the documentation to catch up! DOC-10639

Thanks for reporting this. I'm not sure it this will make the cutoff date for the next release.

Re: Small documentation error

Barbara_P_Intel — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:09:28 GMT

The tech writer snuck the fix in. The statement IMPORT (outside of a TYPE definition) relating to BLOCK is removed from the latest Fortran DGR (Developer Guide and Reference).