From: Peter Mutsaers (muts@muts.hacktic.nl)
Date: 07/02/93


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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