From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann) Subject: Re: f2c in SLS .98 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 11:11:24 GMT
In <1992Oct24.203404.16453@netcom.com> aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) writes:
>In article <mcampbel.719931163@eola.cs.ucf.edu> mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell ) writes:
>>Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Oct23.122551.11874@athena.mit.edu>,
>>>hellmund@hep.physik.uni-leipzig.dbp.de wrote:
>>
>>>> Now my question: Is that an error of my installation/machine
>>>> or has really nobody before tested the f2c binary in the SLS
>>>> package?
>>
>>>Well, I too tested it on some pretty simple programs and found it crashed
>>>every time. I am sucking down the sources now so as to check out what you
>>>mentioned in your post.... Thanks for the knowledge that it can be made to
>>>work and the pointer to the source....
>>
I got the same behavior too. Interestingly, f2c doesn't crash if
it is started from gdb (some pointer overflows ?). The produced
a.out file of a 5liner.f with cc -lf2c -lm -lc runs in principle,
but there is no output on PRINT* or WRITE(*,*) statements. Please comment.
Norbert Zimmermann
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Universitaet Tuebingen
Germany