[3954] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Fortran 77 and 90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederik Lindberg)
Mon Nov 11 19:09:53 1996
From: "Frederik Lindberg" <lindberg@id.wustl.edu>
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>,
"Tim Miller" <tim@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 18:04:51 -0600
Reply-To: "Frederik Lindberg" <lindberg@id.wustl.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Dear Tim:
>I think f2c sucks.
>I could never EVER get it to work.
>Maybe I was doing something intrinsically wrong. This is
>a BIG possibility.
Try it from the rpm - works like a charm. However, as you point out, a lot of
FORTRAN code is awful. I have problems with programs that use REAL as an
agrument where the function accepts INTEGER. FORTRAN seems to silently convert
- f2c complains. However, most of the cases I've seen the argument turns out to
be the wrong one and got typed IMPLICITly. f2c is a great way to fix buggy
FORTRAN (even if you don't know what the code is supposed to do ;-).
-
Sincerely, Fred
Frederik Lindberg
Infectious Diseases, 8051, Washington University School of Med
660 S Euclid Ave, ST. LOUIS, MO 63110
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