LPATH environment variable

65

MP_NUMBER_OF_THREADS environment variable

65

Floating installation

65

Setting up floating installation

66

3 Controlling data storage

67

Disabling implicit typing

67

Automatic and static variables

67

Increasing the precision of constants

69

Increasing default data sizes

70

Increasing default data sizes

70

Sharing data among programs

72

Modules vs. common blocks

74

4 Debugging

76

Using the HP WDB debugger

76

Stripping debugging information

76

Handling runtime exceptions

77

Bus error exception

78

Floating-point exceptions

78

Illegal instruction exception

79

Segmentation violation exception

79

Bad argument exception

80

Using debugging lines

80

5 Using the ON statement

81

Exceptions handled by the ON statement

81

Actions specified by ON

82

Terminating program execution

83

Ignoring errors

83

Calling a trap procedure

84

Trapping floating-point exceptions

84

Trapping integer overflow exceptions

84

Trapping +Ctrl-C trap interrupts

85

Allowing core dumps

85

6 Performance and optimization

87

Using profilers

87

HP Caliper

87

Invoking HP Caliper with the compiler to optimize your program

88

Comparing Program Performance

88

Using Options to Control Data Collection

89

Specifying PBO file names and locations

89

gprof

89

prof

90

Using options to control optimization

90

Using +O to set optimization levels

90

Using the optimization options

91

Conservative vs. aggressive optimization

99

Parallelizing HP Fortran programs

100

Compiling for parallel execution

100

Performance and parallelization

101

Profiling parallelized programs

101

Conditions inhibiting loop parallelization

101

Calling routines with side effects parallellization

101

Indeterminate iteration counts

102

Data dependences

102

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