Fortran 90 Presence Of Optional Arguments - fortran

I do not understand the behavior of the present() intrinsic function with pgf90 7.2. I wrote a 20 line sample program to test this, but the results still make no sense to me. Observe:
subroutine testopt(one,two,three,four,five)
implicit none
integer, intent(in) :: one,two
integer, intent(out) :: three
integer, intent(in), optional :: four
integer, intent(out), optional :: five
three = one + two
print *,"present check: ",present(four),present(five)
if (present(four) .and. present(five)) then
five = four*four
end if
end subroutine testopt
if I: call testopt(1,2,(any variable)) from my main program, it prints: "present check: T F". However if I: call testopt(1,2,(any variable)) from a subprogram it prints: "present check: T T". I expected to see "present check: F F" in either case, because I am only calling the subroutine with the 3 non-optional arguments, and neither of the optional ones. I cannot fathom why it would behave this way, and this is causing a major bug in a program I am working on. I appreciate any insight. Thanks.

Are you placing this subroutine in a module and then having a "use" statement for that module in the calling routine (main program or subroutine)? A typical rule is that many of the advanced / new features of Fortran 90 require an explicit interface so that both the caller and callee pass the arguments consistently. The easiest and best way to accomplish this is with module / use. Just a guess...

In Modern Fortran optional arguments must be declared as optional in the calling function (either through a module or an explicit interface). In Fortran 77 it was possible to simply leave out the last argument, if it was a scalar number, so optional arguments could be passed without extra declaration in the calling routine. This might not have been part of the Fortran standard, but it was a helpful feature provided by wise compiler implementations. Unfortunately, Modern Fortran killed this awesome feature.

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How to resolve "unclassifable error statement" in Fortran [duplicate]

I'm very new at Fortran. I'm trying to compile this Fortran, I think 90??? Code. I'm using visual studio with the intel compiler.
The following code is giving me an error 5082. I have absolutely no idea why. Like literally no clue. Please, please help.
integer function Dub(n)
integer n
Dub = 2*n
return
end
program Subroutines
implicit none
! Variables
integer n
n = 5
! Body of Subroutines
write(*,*) n
Dub(n)
write(*,*) 'Press Enter to Exit'
read(*,*)
stop
end program Subroutines
In Fortran a call to a function, or a subroutine, must be part of a statement (or an initialization expression, but that's more advanced). name(argument[s]) by itself is not a statement, unlike some other languages such as C, C++ and Java. A function call must be in an expression, and a subroutine call must use the call keyword. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortran/Fortran_procedures_and_functions for examples.
Changing that line of your program to n = Dub(n) would make it legal, but rather useless. That function does nothing except return a value, and your main program does nothing useful with the value returned. Generally you call a function because you want either a side effect from executing the function, or to use the returned value, or both.

What 'language' is this written in? (from 1994) - Is it Fortran? [duplicate]

I'm new to Fortran. I was given a file that is supposed to be in Fortran 90, but written to be compiled with the Lahey Fujitsu compiler (the sparse documentation states that it should be compiled with lf95 filename.f -out compiled_name #imsllf95.cmd). However, some lines are commented with c, which as I understand was the way to comment in Fortran 77. Also, matrices are declared like REAL*8, DIMENSION(23,8) :: xxx19, which again I think is from Fortran 77.
For the most part, I can compile the file with gfortran or ifort except for a section that requires the computation of a matrix inverse. Apparently, in the LF95 compiler (using a propietary module IMSLF90), a matrix inverse was computed with .i.. If I delete those inversions, the file compiles and runs with no problem (apart from the fact that it gives the wrong result).
I'm trying to find the version of Fortran this code is written in, so that I can then search for some code written in that same version so that I can invert the matrices in the code.
EDIT: The file has extension .f, even though the compiling instructions seem to imply that it is Fortran 95.
Here I have some sections of the code:
PROGRAM estimate_group
implicit none
INTEGER :: i,j,k,full,group1
REAL*8, DIMENSION(500) :: theta_start,theta_input
OPEN(68, STATUS="REPLACE",file='fit_measures.txt')
c OPEN(68, file='fit_measures.txt')
REWIND(68)
DO full=1,1
PRINT *, "=================================="
PRINT *, "FULL LOOP #: ", full
PRINT *, "=================================="
WRITE(68, *) "=================================="
WRITE(68, *) "FULL LOOP #: ", full
WRITE(68, *) "=================================="
DO group1=2,28
c Additional If statement to focus on top level and scale
c IF ( ((group1>=22) .AND. (group1<=28)) .OR. (group1==2)) THEN
IF ( group1==2) THEN
c READING IN THETA VECTOR FROM PREVIOUS ITERATIONS
c (starting values taken from prior runs theta output)
c ====================================================
IF ((group1==2) .AND. (full==1)) THEN
theta_input=0.0*theta_input
OPEN(67, file='theta_input1.txt')
REWIND(67)
DO i=1,500
READ(67,*) theta_input(i)
END DO
ELSE
theta_input=0.0*theta_input
OPEN(66,file='theta_input.txt')
REWIND(66)
DO i=1,500
READ(66,*) theta_input(i)
END DO
END IF
SUBROUTINE estimate(group1, theta_start)
INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: group1
REAL*8, INTENT(IN), DIMENSION(500) :: theta_start
c Variable Declarations:\
INTEGER :: i,j,k,m,l,t0,i0,improve,max_m
REAL*8, DIMENSION(23,8) :: xxx19
xxx19(1:23,1) = (/554.0,541.1,583.3,593.2,615.8,582.0,582.5,546.5,
& 538.4,494.1,503.3,494.1,486.9,478.6,432.6,439.6,
& 380.4,355.4,305.9,271.8,254.6,208.8,202.8/)
Real*8 is not part of Fortran, and has never been part of Fortran. So the strict answer to your question is it is not Fortran of any vintage.
However going on what you have shown apart from Real*8 it is Fortran 90 or later. Fixed source form is still part of the language (though I would fail any students I have for using it) so it not an indicator of the vintage of the code. However after a quick look at the above I can see the following features which came into the standard language in Fortran 90:
Mixed case (outside character variables and constants)
Underscore in symbol name
Implicit None
:: in variable declarations and comma separated attribute lists
Variable names longer than 6 characters
Double inverted commas (") to delimit character strings
Do ... End Do (I assume you have missed out the End Do for some reason as otherwise the fragments above make no sense whatsoever)
== to test equality
Intent for dummy arguments
Array sections
Array constructors
There may be others.

Is it necessary to check an optional argument before passing it to another optional argument?

I have the following question concerning the usage of optional argument. Let's say I have the following routine aaa defined in module m_aaa
MODULE m_aaa
SUBROUTINE aaa(a, b)
INTEGER :: a
INTEGER, OPTIONAL :: b
END SUBROUTINE
END MODULE
now I have a second routine that uses the module m_aaa. Is it possible to pass the optional argument like this
! Variant 1:
SUBROUTINE bbb(c, d)
USE m_aaa
INTEGER :: c
INTEGER, OPTIONAL :: d
CALL aaa(c,d)
END SUBROUTINE
or is it necessary to check the presence of the optional argument d like this:
! Variant 2:
SUBROUTINE bbb(c, d)
USE m_aaa
INTEGER :: c
INTEGER, OPTIONAL :: d
IF (PRESENT(d)) THEN
CALL aaa(c,d)
ELSE
CALL aaa(c)
ENDIF
END SUBROUTINE
Thanks for your help.
It is not necessary to check to presence of an optional dummy argument before passing it as an actual argument to another optional dummy argument.
This is allowed by 12.5.2.12 paragraph 4 (ISO/IEC 1539-1 (Draft 7 June 2010) aka Fortran 2008) regarding optional actual arguments that are not present:
Except as noted in the list above, it may be supplied as an actual argument corresponding to an optional dummy
argument, which is then also considered not to be present.

Can a Fortran 90 assumed shape array be an OPTIONAL argument?

NOTE: I'm still investigating this issue - please don't look into it yet - the mistake may be elsewhere
I would like an argument to a subroutine to be OPTIONAL, but that argument also happens to be an assume shape array. When I try to compile the module containing this subroutine, I get the following error:
PGF90-S-0189-Argument number 3 to (routine): association of scalar actual argument to array dummy argument (location)
The routine looks like this:
SUBROUTINE EXAMPLE(A, B, C)
IMPLICIT NONE
INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: A, B
INTEGER, OPTIONAL, DIMENSION(:), INTENT(IN) :: C
INTEGER :: TEST
IF (PRESENT(C)) THEN
TEST=C(1)
PRINT *,TEST
ELSE
PRINT *,A,B
ENDIF
END SUBROUTINE EXAMPLE
It is contained within a module. I get the error when I try to call it with only two arguments from a subroutine which is USEing the module.
I have only found one possibly related question on the Portland Group forums here:
http://www.pgroup.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?t=624&sid=d76fdf8ca2bf4fc3109f4f49b1de0ad7
The answer boils down to the user using an optional argument which has not been allocated - I don't know if this applies in my case as I'm not using 'C' outside of the IF(PRESENT(C)) block, but could there be an implicit allocation going on when defining a variable as assumed shape, which cannot be carried out when it is not passed in the first place?
This problem is now resolved - you can indeed use assumed shape arrays as optional arguments. As pointed out in the comments - the error stemmed from an old version of a source file which was not being regenerated by a pre-processing step due to a bug. As a result, the call was not what I thought it was - it actually contained a single integer as the third argument.
Thanks for the help all.

Issue using common blocks in Fortran

I'm working with fortran subroutines of a finite element analysis program. I have to share variables between the two subroutines so I'm using COMMON blocks (EDIT: module is better). The problem is that only some of the variables are passed to the other subroutine, others are not.
My code is like this:
First subroutine:
real knom, krot
COMMON /kVAR/ kmom, krot
SAVE /kVAR/
Second subroutine I use the same syntax. I'm controlling the results by writing kmom and krot values in each subroutine to a txt file:
write(6,*) 'I am in URDFIL', or 'I am in UFIELD'
1 KINC, kmom, krot
The results are:
I am in URDFIL 1 -16700 -2.3857285E-03
I am in UFIELD 2 -16700 -1155769886
So the value of krot is lost. Any advise is most welcome.
João
Solved:
module shared_var
implicit none
real*8 kmom, krot
save
end module shared_var
And in each subroutine:
use shared_var
Did you include the declaration of knom, krot in the second routine? Probably you are getting implicit typing and krot is being output as an integer. And it appears that you have a typo: knom versus kmom. That is why kmom is output as an integer in both cases -- implicit typing as an integer since knom is the real. If implicit typing is in effect these variables will be integers since they begin with "k". My strong recommendation is to not use implicit typing unless it is too much work to remove from legacy code. It is highly recommended to use "implicit none" so that the compiler will warn you if you forget to type a variable or make a typo in a variable name. Most compilers have options that are equivalent to "implicit none".