From: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Fortran, f2c and so on... Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 09:23:13 GMT
On Thu, 1 Jul 1993 00:06:28 GMT, ken@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki) said:
> f2c might not be a good way to compile fortran programs, but
> 1) It works
> 2) It's free
> 3) It's the only way to compile fortran under Linux.
KA> I will also add that in my experience, it is robust. It has
KA> been around long enough so I suspect it is bugfree than some of
KA> the commercial products.
It is, but alas does not work for some programs I have to use :(. The
problem is with some obscure format statements, that use a variable
size. I don't know the details, but I have the feeling that the format
statement is not fully implemented.
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