Overrides or confirms the compiler options in effect for a program unit. Statement format: OPTIONS option [option...] option Is one of the following: /ASSUME=[NO]UNDERSCORE /CHECK=(ALL, [NO]BOUNDS, [NO]OVERFLOW, [NO]UNDERFLOW, NONE) /NOCHECK /CONVERT=(BIG_ENDIAN, CRAY, FDX, FGX, IBM, LITTLE_ENDIAN, NATIVE, VAXD, VAXG) /[NO]EXTEND_SOURCE /[NO]F77 /FLOAT=(D_FLOAT, G_FLOAT, IEEE_FLOAT) /[NO]G_FLOATING /[NO]I4 /[NO]RECURSIVE You must place the slash (/) before the option. The OPTIONS statement must be the first statement in a program unit, preceding the PROGRAM, SUBROUTINE, FUNCTION, MODULE, and BLOCK DATA statements. OPTIONS statement options have the same syntax and abbreviations as their similarly-named VMS compiler options. OPTIONS statement options override compiler options, but only until the end of the program unit for which they are defined. Thus, an OPTIONS statement must appear before each program unit in which you wish to override the compiler options.