From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu   
      
   On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:21:01 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > Here’s another bit of terminology the Fortran spec seemed to feel the   
   > need to invent for itself: talking about “images” to refer to running   
   > instances of a program. I figured this either meant “thread” or   
   > “process”, but a clue appears in the 2018 spec, section 11.4, “STOP and   
   > ERROR STOP statements”:   
   >   
   >     When an image is terminated by a STOP or ERROR STOP statement, its   
   >     stop code, if any, is made available in a processor-dependent   
   >     manner. If the stop-code is an integer, it is recommended that the   
   >     value be used as the process exit status, if the processor supports   
   >     that concept.   
   >   
   > So an image “terminates”, and returns a process “exit status”; this   
   must   
   > mean that an “image” is equivalent to a “process”.   
      
   Section 3 of the Fortran standard from 2018 defines   
   the meaning of technical terms.  You'll find   
      
   3.80   
   Image   
   instance of a Fortran program   
      
   An 'instance of a Fortran program' could be a grad student   
   in an office executing her advisor's Fortran program with   
   pen and paper.   
      
   To get a better understand of 'image' see F2018, 5.3.4 Program   
   execution.   
      
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