ALARM portability routine

[mferry]

Hi,
The ALARM() portatbility routine works fine under windows but cannot be found in any library under linux (V9.1.037 or V10.1.013). Does any workaround exist?
Thanks,
M. Ferry

[Kevin_D_Intel]

The link will succeed on Linux if one compiles with -nus, however, doing so might lead to other issues but worse is the alarm does not function. I do not see a convenient work around right now.

I will investigate the functionality and name decoration further and post again with updated information.

[mferry]

By removing the underscore decoration it could be that the link is made on the alarm function of libc which doesn't have the PROC argument. By the way I've found a reference to a previous similar fix (Feruary12,2003):

Q170420 Portability function ALARM() is not defined in any of the Linux Intel libraries

Thanks,
M. Ferry

[Kevin_D_Intel]

Thank you for the earlier issue reference. I too found that and verified we indeed fixed this in an earlier Intel Compiler 7.1 Linux update. I do not know when the functionality was re-lost. It may have happened during the CVF/Intel Fortran merge in the 8.x release timeframe.

You are right about the libc usage with -nus. After closer inspection, the issue with our current 10.1 release is same as Q170420; the alarm function is not included in our Portability library on Linux.

I will keep you updated.

[Kevin_D_Intel]

This issue was fixed in the initial 11.0 Release for both Linux and Mac OS X. (Packages: l_cprof_p_11.0.069 - Linux; m_cprof_p_11.0.054 - Mac OS X)

(Internal ref. DPD200045545)