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Re: Fortran 77 and 90

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Nov 11 18:15:13 1996

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From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 23:42:13 +0100
In-Reply-To: "Hal L. DeVore Jr."'s message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:55:10 -0600
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"Hal L. DeVore Jr." <hdevore@crow.bmc.com> writes:

> What's wrong with writing a makefile that uses f2c followed by compiling the 
> resulting C code?

You could use fort77 which does this automatically.

But it is much slower, the code is slower and the combination is not
good enough to compile e.g. BLAS and LAPACK out of the box.

>  Consider the C code another form of object code.

Consider it an unnecessary and perfomance-degrading medium stage.

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