.. Copyright 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is part of the GCC manual. For copying conditions, see the copyright.rst file. .. _compiler-characteristics: Compiler Characteristics ------------------------ This chapter describes certain characteristics of the GNU Fortran compiler, that are not specified by the Fortran standard, but which might in some way or another become visible to the programmer. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 compiler-characteristics/kind-type-parameters compiler-characteristics/internal-representation-of-logical-variables compiler-characteristics/evaluation-of-logical-expressions compiler-characteristics/max-and-min-intrinsics-with-real-nan-arguments compiler-characteristics/thread-safety-of-the-runtime-library compiler-characteristics/data-consistency-and-durability compiler-characteristics/files-opened-without-an-explicit-action=-specifier compiler-characteristics/file-operations-on-symbolic-links compiler-characteristics/file-format-of-unformatted-sequential-files compiler-characteristics/asynchronous-i-o