Robert G. Brown wrote:
What are the current limits on the size of arrays that can be allocated
in g77? I know that this is almost a FAQ, but I cannot look back at the
archives because it is so time dependent an answer. In particular, can
an x64 box with a modern linux kernel and a modern g77 allocate 4-8 GB
arrays (presuming, of course, that one uses a long int for an index)? I
have seen references to "using an offset" in a few google hits (that
were not very informative) -- does that basically mean doing pointer
arithmetic in fortran?
(I know Toone works on this and am hoping he's paying attention so I can
get a really authoritative and informative answer...:-)
Well (thanks), I did work on removing a rather silly limit whereby no
array could be larger than 2^32 *bits* in g77 (due to the backend
expressing every size in bits).
I was able to show that - due to the fact that the minimum *unit* in
Fortran indexing was a byte - that the real limit was 2^32 *bytes* (by
showing that constant folding in the compiler's backend would always
remove the bit size "limitation").
However, I never have been able to try out the limits of using a > 2
Gbyte array - while doing the indexing with INTEGER*8 - because my 64
bit machines are simply to small.
The following code works on my 0.5 Gbyte RAM / 1.5 Gbyte SWAP Athlon 64
laptop with gfortran (the new Fortran 95 GNU Fortran), albeit horribly
slowly:
INTEGER*8 I, NSIZE
PARAMETER (NSIZE = 100 000 000_8)
DIMENSION A(3*NSIZE), A1(NSIZE), A2(NSIZE), A3(NSIZE)
EQUIVALENCE (A( 1), A1(1))
EQUIVALENCE (A( NSIZE+1), A2(1))
EQUIVALENCE (A(2*NSIZE+1), A3(1))
DO I = 1, NSIZE
A1(I) = 0.0
A2(I) = 0.0
A3(I) = 0.0
ENDDO
DO I = 1, 3*NSIZE
A(I) = I
ENDDO
DO I = 1, NSIZE
IF (A1(I) .NE. A( I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A2(I) .NE. A( NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A3(I) .NE. A(2*NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
ENDDO
DO I = 1, NSIZE
A1(I) = 0.0
A2(I) = 0.0
A3(I) = 0.0
ENDDO
CALL SUB(A, 3*NSIZE)
DO I = 1, NSIZE
IF (A1(I) .NE. A( I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A2(I) .NE. A( NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A3(I) .NE. A(2*NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
ENDDO
END
SUBROUTINE SUB(A, N)
DIMENSION A(N)
DO I = 1, N
A(I) = I
ENDDO
END
This is the compiler that will be in GCC 4.1 (which will be out in about
a week). Perhaps you can jazz this up by increasing NSIZE so that you
go over the 4 Gbyte limit on a machine with enough memory ...
Hope this helps,
--
Toon Moene - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
A maintainer of GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
My next laptop will have a crank
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