Fortran module that provides interface with NVIDIA Tools Extension (NVTX) library. This version works with XLF which requires valid arguements to c_loc.

nvtx_mod.F90

module nvtx_mod

use iso_c_binding
implicit none

integer,private :: col(7) = [ Z'0000ff00', Z'000000ff', Z'00ffff00', &
Z'00ff00ff', Z'0000ffff', Z'00ff0000', Z'00ffffff']
!character(len=256), private :: tempName
character, private, target :: tempName(256)


type, bind(C):: nvtxEventAttributes
  integer(C_INT16_T):: version=1
  integer(C_INT16_T):: size=48 !
  integer(C_INT):: category=0
  integer(C_INT):: colorType=1 ! NVTX_COLOR_ARGB = 1
  integer(C_INT):: color
  integer(C_INT):: payloadType=0 ! NVTX_PAYLOAD_UNKNOWN = 0
  integer(C_INT):: reserved0
  integer(C_INT64_T):: payload   ! union uint,int,double
  integer(C_INT):: messageType=1  ! NVTX_MESSAGE_TYPE_ASCII     = 1 
  type(C_PTR):: message  ! ascii char
end type

interface nvtxRangePush
  ! push range with custom label and standard color
  subroutine nvtxRangePushA(name) bind(C, name='nvtxRangePushA')
  use iso_c_binding
  character(kind=C_CHAR) :: name(256)
  end subroutine

  ! push range with custom label and custom color
  subroutine nvtxRangePushEx(event) bind(C, name='nvtxRangePushEx')
  use iso_c_binding
  import:: nvtxEventAttributes
  type(nvtxEventAttributes):: event
  end subroutine
end interface

interface nvtxRangePop
  subroutine nvtxRangePop() bind(C, name='nvtxRangePop')
  end subroutine
end interface

contains

subroutine nvtxStartRange(name,id)
  character(kind=c_char,len=*) :: name
  integer, optional:: id
  type(nvtxEventAttributes):: event
  character(kind=c_char,len=256) :: trimmed_name
  integer :: i
  
  trimmed_name=trim(name)//c_null_char

  ! move scalar trimmed_name into character array tempName
  do i=1,LEN(trim(name)) + 1
     tempName(i) = trimmed_name(i:i)
  enddo


  if ( .not. present(id)) then
    call nvtxRangePush(tempName)
  else
    event%color=col(mod(id,7)+1)
    event%message=c_loc(tempName)
    call nvtxRangePushEx(event)
  end if
end subroutine

subroutine nvtxEndRange
  call nvtxRangePop
end subroutine

end module nvtx_mod

Example Usage:
call nvtxStartRange("MoveAndCompute")
*** do work ***
call nvtxEndRange