Version 13.1.2 of IBM XL C for AIX, IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, and IBM XL C/C++ for Linux; and Version 15.1.2 of IBM XL Fortran for AIX and IBM XL Fortran for Linux deliver detailed reporting and performance enhancements in addition to improved language interoperability and standards conformance.

XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1.2 for little endian distributions delivers a number of new features and enhancements:

• C11 compliance and support for a majority of the C++11 standards, supporting code portability between multiple operating systems and hardware platforms

• Full conformance for OpenMP 3.1 features and selected OpenMP 4.0 features
• Symmetric, multi-processing capabilities
• Vector data types and access to the vector multimedia extension (VMX) and vector scalar extension (VSX) instructions on the POWER8 processor
• Compiler reports were added to provide additional information for optimizations in multiple formats

XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1.2, and XL Fortran for Linux, V15.1.2 for little endian distributions now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 for IBM POWER.

Version 15.1.2 for XL Fortran for AIX and XL Fortan for Linux deliver quality improvements over the previous release by including fixes from all previous release PTFs and resolving other known issues, in addition to adding a new visibility attribute for external linkage entities, and enhanced interoperability between XL Fortran and XL C.

Version 13.1.2 for XL C for AIX and XL C/C++ for AIX deliver quality improvements over the earlier release by including fixes from all previously released PTFs and other, resolved known issues.

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