Newsletter for March 2022 (#379)

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* Update _posts/2022-03-01-Fortran-Newsletter-March-2022.md

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Co-authored-by: AlexisPerry <aperry@lanl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Ondřej Čertík <ondrej@certik.us>

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+title: "Fortran newsletter: March 2022"
+category: newsletter
+author: Milan Curcic, Alexis Perry-Holby, Ondřej Čertík
+---
+
+Welcome to the March edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter.
+The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details
+Fortran news from the previous month.
+
+<ul id="page-nav"></ul>
+
+## fortran-lang.org
+
+Here's what's new in the fortran-lang.org repo:
+
+* [#369](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/369):
+  Resolves Issue #217
+* [#359](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/359):
+  Fix time calculation in the PRs script
+
+### Work in progress
+
+* [#347](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/347) (WIP):
+  Fortran Intrinsics
+
+[Let us know](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/issues)
+if you have any suggestions for the website and its content.
+We welcome any new contributors to the website and the tutorials page in particular - see the
+[contributor guide](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+for how to get started.
+
+## Fortran Standard Library
+
+Here's what's new in stdlib:
+
+* [#624](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/624):
+  [stdlib_math] Minor update to `stdlib_math` module and document
+
+### Work in progress
+
+* [#625](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/625) (WIP):
+  Gamma special function
+* [#611](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/611) (WIP):
+  Hash maps
+* [#604](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/604) (WIP):
+  Add get_argument, get_variable and set_variable
+* [#580](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/580) (WIP):
+  Add terminal and color escape sequences
+* [#552](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/552) (WIP):
+  fixed bug in stringlist
+* [#536](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/536) (WIP):
+  Fix conversion warnings
+* [#520](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/520) (WIP):
+  [stdlib_io] add `disp`(display variable values formatted).
+* [#517](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/517) (WIP):
+  adding SPEC_TEMPLATE.md #504
+* [#514](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/514) (WIP):
+  pop, drop & get with basic range feature for stringlist
+* [#491](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/491) (WIP):
+  Stdlib linked list
+* [#473](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/473) (WIP):
+  Error stop improvements
+* [#363](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/363) (WIP):
+  Sorting string's characters according to their ASCII values
+* [#286](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/286) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Beta Distribution Module
+* [#278](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/278) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Gamma Distribution Module
+* [#189](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/189) (WIP):
+  Initial implementation of COO / CSR sparse format
+
+Please help improve stdlib by testing and [reviewing pull requests](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22reviewers+needed%22)!
+
+The candidate for file system operations to be included in stdlib is being developed by
+[@MarDiehl](https://github.com/MarDiehl) and [@arjenmarkus](https://github.com/arjenmarkus)
+in [this repository](https://github.com/MarDiehl/stdlib_os).
+Please try it out and let us know how it works, if there are any issues, or if the API can be improved.
+
+## Fortran Package Manager
+
+Here's what's new in fpm:
+
+* [#652](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/652):
+  get user name and email using git config if available else use defaults
+* [#654](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/654):
+  Ignore hidden source files
+* [#622](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/622):
+  Cleanup the backend output
+* [#648](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/648):
+  Add note about relocation of manifest reference
+- [fpm-docs#42](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-docs/issues/42):
+  Dutch translation
+- [fpm-docs#48](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-docs/pull/48):
+  Chinese translation improvements
+- [fpm-docs#52](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-docs/pull/52):
+  Update plugin tutorial
+
+### Work in progress
+
+* [#665](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/665) (WIP):
+  add clean command
+* [#653](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/653) (WIP):
+  Enable profiles in toml
+* [#608](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/608) (WIP):
+  --env switch lets you specify the prefix of the compiler-related environment variables
+* [#539](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/539) (WIP):
+  Add parent packages into dependency tree
+* [#498](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/498) (WIP):
+  Compiler flags profiles
+- [fpm-docs#51](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-docs/pull/51) (WIP):
+  Add page about fpm logo
+
+`fpm` is still in early development and we need as much help as we can get.
+Here's how you can help today:
+
+* Use it and let us know what you think! Read the [fpm packaging guide](https://fpm.fortran-lang.org/en/tutorial)
+to learn how to build your package with fpm, and the [manifest reference](https://fpm.fortran-lang.org/en/spec/manifest.html)
+to learn what are all the things that you can specify in the fpm.toml file.
+
+* Browse existing *fpm* packages on the [fortran-lang website](https://fortran-lang.org/packages/fpm)
+* Browse the [open issues](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/issues) and see if you can help implement any fixes or features.
+* Adapt your Fortran package for fpm and submit it to the [Registry](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-registry).
+* Improve the documentation.
+
+The short-term goal of fpm is to make development and installation of Fortran packages with dependencies easier.
+Its long term goal is to build a rich and decentralized ecosystem of Fortran packages and create a healthy
+environment in which new open source Fortran projects are created and published with ease.
+
+## Compilers
+
+### Flang
+
+Recent development updates:
+
+* FIR
+    * Initial lowering for empty program
+    * Upstream partial lowering of COMMAND_ARGUMENT_COUNT intrinsic
+    * Add lowering placeholders
+    * Add lowering for basic empty SUBROUTINE
+    * Upstream partial lowering of EXIT intrinsic
+    * Lower basic STOP statement
+    * Lower PAUSE statement
+    * Add lowering for integer constant
+    * Lower integer constant code for STOP stmt
+    * Add fir.array_access op
+    * Add fir.array_amend operation definition
+    * Handle logical constant value for quiet in STOP stmt
+    * Upstream partial lowering of GET_COMMAND_ARGUMENT intrinsic
+    * Basic local variable lowering
+    * Add lowering for ASCII character constant
+    * Handle character constant for error code in STOP stmt
+    * Upstream partial lowering of GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE intrinsic
+    * Add missing CFI case for REAL and COMPLEX
+    * Add support for lowering the goto statement
+    * Add type conversion for !fir.box<none>
+    * Add FIRInlinerInterface
+    * Lower simple RETURN statement
+    * Upstream fix to allocmem codegen to deal with missing dimensions for sequence of character types
+    * Lower basic function with scalar integer/logical return value
+    * Enable scalar real type in lowering
+    * Enable complex type in function lowering
+    * Handle lowering of ranked array
+    * Lower simple scalar assignment
+    * Lower scalar negation
+    * Lower basic binary operation for scalars
+    * Initial patch to lower a Fortran intrinsic
+    * Lower real constant
+    * Lower complex constant
+    * Lower function and subroutine calls
+    * Handle allocatable dummy arguments
+    * Lower allocatable assignment for scalar
+    * Simple array assignment lowering
+    * Lower simple character return
+    * Lower Fortran intrinsic to a runtime call/llvm intrinsic
+    * Lower integer comparison operation
+    * Lower real comparison operations
+    * Lower logical comparison and logical operations
+    * Lower power operations
+    * Add complex operations lowering tests
+    * Lower basic IO statement
+    * Handle dynamic array lowering
+* Driver
+    * Add support for `-emit-mlir`
+    * Add support for `-emit-llvm`
+    * Make `flang-new` always generate run-time type info
+    * Add support for `--target`/`--triple`
+* OpenMP
+    * Added OpenMP 5.0 specification based semantic checks for atomic update construct
+    * The device expression must evaluate to a non-negative integer value
+    * Remove clauses from OpenMP Dialect that are handled by the flang frontend instead:
+        * private, firstprivate, lastprivate, shared, default, copyin, copyprivate
+* Runtime
+    * Implement a runtime routine to report fatal errors with source position
+    * Rename the runtime routine that reports a fatal user error
+    * runtime perf: larger I/O buffer growth increments
+    * Add runtime interface for GET_COMMAND
+    * Upstream runtime changes for inquiry intrinsics
+* Improve error message (initialized variable in pure subprogram)
+* Accept BOZ literals for some actual arguments
+* Accept sparse argument keyword names for MAX/MIN
+* Accept INDEX(..., BACK=array)
+* Fix OPEN/WRITE(SIGN='SUPPRESS')
+* Handle FLUSH(unknown unit)
+* Allow explicit '+' in NAMELIST input subscripts
+* Extension: skip over NAMELIST groups
+* Add array operations documentation
+* Fix crash from USE-associated defined I/O subprograms
+* Allow INQUIRE() on a child unit in user-defined I/O procedure
+* Don't drop format string for external child I/O
+* Support DECIMAL='COMMA' mode in namelist I/O
+* Update tco tool pipline and add translation to LLVM IR
+* Add MemoryAllocation pass to the pipeline
+* Add ieee_is_normal/ieee_is_negative to ieee_arithmetic module.
+* Add a custom target for the "flang" wrapper script.
+* split character procedure arguments in target-rewrite pass
+* Expand the semantics test for co_sum
+* Correct interpretation of RECL=
+* Distinguish intrinsic from non-intrinsic modules
+* Make NEWUNIT= use a range suitable for INTEGER(KIND=1) and recycle unit numbers
+* Modify right modes for READ/WRITE vs OPEN
+* Add a semantics test for co_broadcast
+* catch implicit interface incompatibility with global scope symbol
+* Add an assert to guard against nullptr dereferencing
+* Fix FlangOptimizerTests link on Solaris
+* Handle "type(foo) function f" when foo is defined in f
+* Refine pointer/target test for ASSOCIATED intrinsic
+* Allow mixed association of procedure pointers and targets
+* Fix edge case in USE-associated generics
+* Fail at link time if derived type descriptors were not generated
+* Allow for deferred-length character in EstablishDescriptor
+* Allow DATA initialization of derived types w/ allocatable components
+* Accept NULL(mold=x) as constant component value in constant structure constructor
+* Ensure a characterized ENTRY in a PURE subprogram is also marked PURE
+* Accept structure constructor value for polymorphic component
+* Remove deprecated parser/printer/verifier utilities
+* Accept pointer assignment w/ remapping to function result
+* Allow extension cases of EQUIVALENCE with optional warnings
+* Handle CALL C_F_POINTER(without SHAPE=)
+* Make source location more accurate for actual arguments
+* Add Win32 to the list of supported triples
+* Allow tabs as white space in formats
+* Do not print format tabs
+* Catch I/O of bad derived type at compile time
+* Allow more concurrently open NEWUNIT= values, with recycling
+
+Call notes are recorded and available upon request [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10T-S2J3GrahpG4Ooif93NSTz2zBW0MQc_RlwHi0-afY). Please contact Alexis Perry-Holby at aperry@lanl.gov for document access.
+
+### LFortran
+
+* LFortran is participating in GSoC, please see [GSoC 2022 Student Instructions for LFortran](https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/wikis/GSoC%202022%20Student%20Instructions) for instructions how to apply
+* 19 Merge Requests merged
+* New ASR optimizations
+* Addes support for fma (fused-multiply add) in LLVM
+* Semantic improves to compile more of stdlib
+
+We are looking for new contributors. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested. We will help you get up to speed.
+
+## Events
+
+* Fortran-lang has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2022!
+  Thanks to everybody who helped prepare the application.
+  [GSoC](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) is Google's global, online program that allows newcomers to open-source to work on a project and get paid for it. 
+  See the [Fortran-lang GSoC 2022 page](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/organizations/fortran-lang) for information about the projects and how to apply.
+  Applications for contributors open **April 4** and close **April 19**.
+  To learn more about GSoC and what has changed since last year, please see the [GSoC 2022 announcement](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html).
+  If you'd like to participate as a contributor or a mentor, please let us know in this thread and we'll help you get started.
+* Fortran-lang community now maintains a modernized fork of the classic library
+  [minpack](https://github.com/fortran-lang/minpack). Give it a try!
+* We had our 23rd Fortran Monthly call on February 15.
+  You can watch the recording below:
+  <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oi0F-4QSdIY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+* US Fortran Standards Committee meeting #226 started on February 28.
+  See the draft agenda [here](https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/22/agenda226.txt)
+  and the submitted papers [here](https://j3-fortran.org/doc/meeting/226).
+
+As usual, subscribe to the [mailing list](https://groups.io/g/fortran-lang) and/or
+join the [Discourse](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group) to stay tuned with the future meetings.
+
+## Contributors
+
+We thank everybody who contributed to fortran-lang in the past month by
+commenting in any of these repositories:
+
+* [fortran-lang/stdlib](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib)
+* [fortran-lang/stdlib-cmake-example](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib-cmake-example)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm-registry](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-registry)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm-docs](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-docs)
+* [fortran-lang/setup-fpm](https://github.com/fortran-lang/setup-fpm)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm-haskell](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-haskell)
+* [fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org)
+* [fortran-lang/benchmarks](https://github.com/fortran-lang/benchmarks)
+* [fortran-lang/fortran-forum-article-template](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-forum-article-template)
+* [fortran-lang/fftpack](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fftpack)
+* [fortran-lang/minpack](https://github.com/fortran-lang/minpack)
+* [fortran-lang/test-drive](https://github.com/fortran-lang/test-drive)
+* [j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals)
+
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