Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 17 Sept 1996
| 1 | Scope of any mapping directives is a single (sub)program unit |
| 2 | A template or distribution is not a first-class Fortran 90 object: |
| 3 | It cannot be passed as a subprogram argument and this creates significant complication! |
| 4 | HPF Compiler will typically pass an extra argument which is effectively an array-descriptor telling subroutine about distribution of passed arrays |
| 5 | One can use array query intrinsics to find out what is going on but of course compiler does this implicitly |