OpenACC in Flang¶
Intentional deviation from the specification¶
The end directive for combined construct can omit the
loop
keyword.An
!$acc routine
with no parallelism clause is treated as if theseq
clause was present.!$acc end loop
does not trigger a parsing error and is just ignored.The restriction on
!$acc data
required clauses is emitted as a portability warning instead of an error as other compiler accepts it.The
if
clause accepts scalar integer expression in addition to scalar logical expression.!$acc routine
directive can be placed at the top level.!$acc cache
directive accepts scalar variable.
Remarks about incompatibilities with other implementations¶
Array element references in the data clauses are equivalent to array sections consisting of this single element, i.e.
copyin(a(n))
is equivalent tocopyin(a(n:n))
. Some other implementations have treated it ascopyin(a(:n))
, which does not correspond to OpenACC spec – Flang does not support this interpretation of an array element reference.