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Re: Fortran 77 and 90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Nov 11 18:47:06 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 00:35:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: "Michael K. Johnson"'s message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:38:37 -0500
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"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com> writes:
> Consider that most of the respected commercial Fortran compilers convert
> the fortran code to C
Naah. They use low-level features of gcc, but they don't convert it to
C (eg. strings aren't terminated with "\0" if you don't use
f2c). These compilers results in far better code than f2c.
> *Every* Fortran 90 compiler for Unix
> that I'm aware of compiles to C and then compiles the C into object
> code.
Not Cray's, at least.
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