EXTRINSIC Routines
EXTRINSIC is an “escape hatch” into lower-level languages
- EXTRINSIC(HPF_LOCAL)
- EXTRINSIC(F77_LOCAL)
- EXTRINSIC(COBOL_Y2K_CONVERTER)
This allows access to machine hardware (e.g. synchronization primitives) and other paradigms (e.g. task parallelism)