4 Fortran 2003 Status

Although GNU Fortran focuses on implementing the Fortran 95 standard for the time being, a few Fortran 2003 features are currently available.

• Intrinsics command_argument_count, get_command, get_command_argument, get_environment_variable, and move_alloc.
• Array constructors using square brackets. That is, [...] rather than (/.../).
• FLUSH statement.
• IOMSG= specifier for I/O statements.
• Support for the declaration of enumeration constants via the ENUM and ENUMERATOR statements. Interoperability with gcc is guaranteed also for the case where the -fshort-enums command line option is given.
• TR 15581:
  • ALLOCATABLE dummy arguments.
  • ALLOCATABLE function results
  • ALLOCATABLE components of derived types
• The OPEN statement supports the ACCESS='STREAM' specifier, allowing I/O without any record structure.